[analytical-indicant-theory] My Dissertation
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Bernx at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/9/2008 11:34:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
>
> .
>
> 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
there is nothing wrong with calling a stone a thing.
reification is problematic only when it presupposes a prior abstraction;
and, may well constitute a failure to abstract properly or a failure to
understand an abstraction as an abstraction.
Joe
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