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In a message dated 9/9/2008 11:34:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:

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in a larger sense, the problem is finding a way to obtain the benefits
of abstraction/reification without paying too high a price; and, blindly
getting rid of abstractions/reifications *would* be too high a price.
without reifications such as governments, corporations, deeds of land
ownership, relationships such as marriage, etc. we would be living a
stone age existence.

I think you got it backwards, Joe. Thingification (reification) is a
primitive mode
of a reality principle that contraverts the ability to abstract and concept
formation.
Bernard


Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda

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