>... "Justice is blind; the blind cannot read printed laws; therefore, to print laws cannot serve justice."
Justice will never be served for poor Justice if she cannot read the laws of justice. Oh, the injustice of it all! > > 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. > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
