Marsha said: Radical Empiricism is a reified concept.
dmb replies:
It's pretty clear that you do not even understand the meaning of the term
"reification", let alone radical empiricism.
"Reification (also known as hypostatisation, concretism, or the fallacy of
misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction
(abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a
concrete, real event, or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of
treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an
idea. For example: if the phrase "holds another's affection", is taken
literally, affection would be reified.
Note that reification is generally accepted in literature and other forms of
discourse where reified abstractions are understood to be intended
metaphorically, but the use of reification in logical arguments is usually
regarded as a mistake (fallacy). For example, "Justice is blind; the blind
cannot read printed laws; therefore, to print laws cannot serve justice." In
rhetoric, it may be sometimes difficult to determine if reification was used
correctly or incorrectly.
Pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is a subset of reification, where
the idea is not only treated as being alive, but as being intelligent and
human-like.
Etymology: From Latin res thing + facere to make, reification can be
'translated' as thing-making; the turning of something abstract into a concrete
thing or object."
If you want to communicate with english-speaking people, you gotta get rid of
the belief that it's okay to have your own private definitions.
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