• TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While that is true, it also means various types of alterations in consciousness and paradigm shifts, but there is really only one type of existential crisis.

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      1 year ago

      Well I don’t really agree with that and I also don’t think it’s a solution to faulty parallelism.

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        1 year ago

        There are multiple types of crises, but every existential crisis is an existential crisis. The plurality is negated by the modifier, “existential.”

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          1 year ago

          Not really. A midlife crisis and a psychotic episode could both be called existential crises. I don’t think there’s a hard definition to it like you seem to be asserting.