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From: brumback-AT-ncgate.newcollege.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:38:37 -0700
Subject: Re: M-I: but everyone knew her as Nancy


Well, yes, but her name was McGill and she called herself Lil. And we're
dealing with more than just words here -- we're dealing with real life
phenomena, i.e., Paris green can be identified by its effects. If you say
that labor is the material basis of money, (I guess that's what you're
arguing, because you didn't say) then what is your evidence? What effects
prove this?

Nancy



>+   If you choose to call water Paris green, that's your business.
>+  Suppose I came to you and said: "Paris green is not poisonous,
>+  it is an excellent thing for the human system"; and suppose I
>+  went on saying: "See here, I am taking Paris green, look at me.
>+  [The speaker drinks a glass of water from the podium].  You see,
>+  it refreshes and does not kill me!" What would you think of that?
>+  You would he justified to say I was juggling with words.  And that
>+  is what I tell you.  You have no right to call water Paris green;
>+  it is known all the world over as water, and Paris green is known
>+  as Paris green, a poison.
>
>    -- Daniel DeLeon, "Reform or Revolution?"
>    http://www.marx.org/deleon/Archive/960126.htm
>
>"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather
>a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it 
>to mean -- neither more nor less."
>
> -- Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
>    (1832-98), English author, mathematician]
>    "Through the Looking-Glass," (1872), Chapter 6.
>
>- David Stevens
>
>
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