RE: virus: Re: Social Metaphysics

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:04:00 -0600


At 10:05 AM 9/26/97 +0100, Robin Faichney wrote:

>Better make up new ones than use old ones, whose
>meanings the rest of us think we know, with new
>meanings.

How many words have a single meaning? I would guess none.
I think people are a lot more adaptable then you give them
credit for.

>There is concensus meaning of "real" is not well
>defined. That does not mean it does not exist, or
>that it has no uses. Your explanation of "objectively
>real" mentioned agreement among observers.

I suggested that objective reality is consistent. That isn't
meant to be a definition of objective reality, it is (possibly)
a property of objective reality.

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