Timeline for What do the joints signify in the metaphor "carve nature at the joints"?
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 23:00 | answer | added | jsw29 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 20:54 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Feb 2, 2016 at 12:25 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Not at all. I didn't even recognize "carve nature at the joints". I just searched for it in Google Books and happened to notice They don't, as Plato put it, carve nature at the joints in the 2nd result (from Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion). The rest, as they say, is history (or philosophy, depending on how you look at such things! :) | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 4:27 | comment | added | user50720 | @FumbleFingers +1. Thanks. Did you study Ancient Greek? | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 0:37 | answer | added | Rob_Ster | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 0:25 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's from Plato. As this guy explains: Cutting up any body is difficult, but it is a process made relatively easier if one incises at the joints, as a butcher typically would do. Thus a concept, area or object that is not in nature separated can be done to some degree for a satisfactory physical or conceptual result by approaching it at a naturally softer point. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 0:17 | history | asked | user50720 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |