[MD] Stuck on a Torn Slot

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Marsha]
> Reification decontextualizes. Intellectual patterns
> process from a subject/object conceptual
> framework creating false boundaries that give the
> illusion of independence as a “thing” or an
> “object of analysis.”
Marsha,
Suppose you are in the wilderness & starving.  The only possible "things" to eat are 2 fungi.  Your field
 guidebook says that one is an edible mushroom, the other a toxic toadstool.  What will you do?
Even though you "think" there is a false boundary between mushroom & toadstool, you will eat only the mushroom.
As Pirsig says: "If you can't generalize from the data, there is nothing else you can do with it either."
Craig