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Chairs just as much as individual organisms, just as much as mineral and rock specimens, are unique things if you know them well enough you will find an individual difference even in a set of machine-made chairs and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlimited capacity, because our brain has only a limited number of pigeon-holes for our correspondence with an unlimited universe of objective uniques, that we have to delude ourselves into the belief that there is a chairishness in this species common to and distinctive of all chairs.

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

Chairs just as much as individual organisms, just as much as mineral and rock specimens, are unique things if you know them well enough you will find an individual difference even in a set of machine-made chairs and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlimited capacity, because our brain has only a limited number of pigeon-holes for our correspondence with an unlimited universe of objective uniques, that we have to delude ourselves into the belief that there is a chairishness in this species common to and distinctive of all chairs.

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me." Think then of the glib way in which we speak of "the unemployed," "the unfit," "the criminal," "the unemployable," and how easily we forget that behind these general terms are unique individuals with personal histories and varying needs.