[MD] Stuck on a Torn Slot

[MarshaV]

On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:34 PM, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

> [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.”

> Craig
> 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."

Marsha:
I agree with RMP, I am not opposed to reification.  It's a handy-dandy tool. 
Are there other better tools yet to be developed?  I don't know.     


 
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