Mark, How about as antonym for 'reify' "impermanent, interdependent, ever-changing static pattern of value"?
Marsha On May 17, 2011, at 2:35 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > > 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 ___ 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
