In a message dated 6/1/10 3:32:21 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Is wrong a reified abstraction ? Or merely a category? > Good catch, Saul. To all intents and purposes, yes, it is. More strictly, the entailed reified abstractions are the QUALITY "wrongness", and the CATEGORY or SET of "wrong things - i.e. statements, procedures." I continue carelessly to mix kitchen and strick English. I am wrong to do it (!) > > On 6/1/10 2:23 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a premature and incomplete heads up about Harris's position. Like > every academic I know of in linguistics and philosophy of language, he > appears > to be reifying abstractions like "categories", "art", "religions". I know > -- > everybody does it. But everybody is wrong.
