Carrol > I don't think I've ever much used the term "reify, but it seems the > term needed to describe applying "fix" to "the economy." The phrase > empties both verb & object of meaning. An entity that can be "fixed" > has to be something with clear & unambiguous borders: a shirt, a > machine, perhaps a bone in a body, but not "an economy" or "a society" > or "the waters of the earth." "Waters of the earth" is much more > bounded than the economy.
Any meaning that the words "fixing the economy" have is due to their use in common parlance, which means that it changes over time and varies among communities. "Fixing the economy" means dealing with (or ameliorating) the most salient ills of the day from the perspective of the speaker(s). To many people today, it means getting unemployment down to a more reasonable level. Others would add dealing with the housing/foreclosure issue. Etc. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
