I love public holidays, especially when I manage to polish off most of my work before they come around.
Still have a small philosophy paper to work on. Can anyone think of a property that is genetic, but not (necessarily) innate or inherited? The best I can come up with is a mutation. This is strictly not inherited, because mutations are to the best of our knowledge random. They're also kinda innate, in that we always have it.
Sleeping tonight and paying attention tomorrow is going to be a bother. Finally, someone of uber skill on an instrument is coming to my home town, and not just one. Herbie Hancock is playing at the Canberra Theatre, and he's brought Vinnie Colaiuta. Two of the finest players on their respective instruments in the whole world, in my little backwater. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Still have a small philosophy paper to work on. Can anyone think of a property that is genetic, but not (necessarily) innate or inherited? The best I can come up with is a mutation. This is strictly not inherited, because mutations are to the best of our knowledge random. They're also kinda innate, in that we always have it.
Sleeping tonight and paying attention tomorrow is going to be a bother. Finally, someone of uber skill on an instrument is coming to my home town, and not just one. Herbie Hancock is playing at the Canberra Theatre, and he's brought Vinnie Colaiuta. Two of the finest players on their respective instruments in the whole world, in my little backwater. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I'd say species or gender, but they'd be innate I guess.
Doesn't excluding innate properties exclude inherited properties anyway?
And either way, aren't you then left with any property that is introduced -after- fertilisation?
As to philosophy, doesn't matter if they're innate. I only need to exclude up to two of the others. Your species I think is arguable an inherited property. Your species is determined by what species your parents are.
As for excluding innate properties, I don't think it necessarily does exclude inherited properties, but I'm struggling to come up with an example.
Culture is an example of something that is innate and inherited that is introduced after fertilisation, in a way. We're not exposed to our culture until we're born, but in a way, what our culture is is determined before our birth, but only after fertilisation (given we are only a possiblity after fertilisation).