File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 16


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

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'if you believe in nothing, you'll never be disappointed.'   
-anonymous 


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