it represents a kind of dogmatic essentialism, and arguable arrogance. a thing is what it appears to be -- no more and no less. it's a hyper-ordered, arbitrary representation of reality whereby everything can be distilled down into a series of knowable, concrete statements backed by the law of identity. if a = a on a universal level, there is no room for nuance or unknowns. there is simply a existing in its strict capacity as a is understood. in a word, it's just a hardline materialism.
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