Mark said to 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.
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? Ron; Hello Mark, Marsha. It helps to realize that reification is a form of logic trap. Not the formation and use of words and language. I believe the written word is much more easily suggestive to reification simply because it has visual form. But words arent forms, they are instructions of meaning. Words arent as meaningfull except when they are linked with other words in a contextual chain, they all relate to another to compose a greater meaning. Reducing the meaning of a word to letters, the most general word is a letter the letter "A" which has several meanings and uses that only may be given more precise meaning with the context of other letters and words. "A" when spoken, is a sound a form?, the spoken sounds connect with experience, they connect with meaning and value. When an experience has meaning it has value and words are complex arrangements of value to be sure, but here is where reification emerges out of it in that it starts with certain intellectual assumptions mostly out of the over familierality of the written word. For example: Ball "Ball" seems like a form at first, the visual of the written word, the assumption of general meaning as an isolated object. But,, it really loses it's definite form apon a closer examination. Was it meant as an object? or was it a refference to a social function? to sex? now the appearent visual form has moved to a meaning of an action or an event and that relates to a personal experience. Can we rightly call this reification? or is it when we concieve of concepts as objects are we really falling for the trap of reification at such a level that we fail to realize it? 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
