Greetings Mark,
On May 16, 2011, at 10:36 PM, 118 wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > Sometimes what a word means to one can be seen by what antonym one > chooses for it. Therefore, I challenge you to present an antonym for > reify or any of its derivatives. You may find this difficult since an > antonym of such a thing is a reification in itself (if I get your > drift about this concept). Therefore unreify or deriefy or areify are > nonsense and do not exist. Speaking conventionally, I would choose 'interconnectedness' as a antonym. But of course words, with their definition like a cage, reify. > What you may find, however, is that the antonym of reify is a finger > pointing right at Dynamic Quality. Does this help at all with the > reify concept? Thanks for the help. Marsha > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:56 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> I am sure you are sick of my posts, but I had this article from the >> interent that might explain more of my understanding of reification >> from a Buddhist point-of-view. Here's a little bit quoted from >> the article and the url: >> >> "To reify is usually defined as mistakenly regarding an abstraction as a >> thing. It is derived from the Latin word res meaning 'thing'. >> >> Reification in Western philosophy means treating an abstract belief or >> hypothetical construct as if it were a concrete, 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. >> >> In Buddhist philosophy the concept of reification goes further. Reification >> means treating any functioning phenomenon as if it were a real, permanent >> 'thing', rather than an impermanent process." >> >> >> >> >> >> http://seanrobsville.blogspot.com/2009/12/reification-in-buddhism-ultimate-and.html >> >> >> >> >> Marsha >> >> ___ 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
