Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:56:34 -0800 (PST) From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: rights (was ...talks shite) > A brick is not a mental > construct, it's a physical > construct with a physical reality that doesn't give > a shit whether you > believe in it or not. sure what we call a brick exists. but 'brick' is just a language construct to describe something. it exists as a brick because ppl have commonly agreed through collective invented language that the object will be dubbed brick. if you teach 10,000 children that what we call a brick is actually a tree in the reality of those 10,000 children that small stone object will be a tree. and those 10,000 kids, when they grow up, will teach their children that the small stone object is a tree and so on and so on. the object does not cease to exist, it is just reconstructed in the language. the idea is that you can never truly know something because language is invented and therefore a collective lie in which ppl believe out of necessity. the object doesn't care what you call it, it simply is, and the fact that it simply is, rejects the notion that we can 'know' it beyond language. it becomes a brick only through common belief in language. it is not objectively a brick. gr3g ==== 'if you believe in nothing, you'll never be disappointed.' -anonymous __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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