[MD] Philosophy and Abstraction

[MarshaV]

On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:59 PM, MarshaV wrote:

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>> dmb says:
>> I don't see how Marsha's self-contradictory position could ever be resolved. I have tried repeatedly to explain that reification is a conceptual error and not the inherent nature of conceptualization. The texts she cites as evidence of her claims make the distinction between concepts and this particular kind of conceptual error. Her own evidence is against her on this.
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> Marsha:
> Yes, it is error, but is the conventional way of thinking.   It is to think that these static value truths (conventional truths) are independent, when in fact they are ever-changing, interdependent, impermanent patterns.  
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dmb,

I'd like to add that the illusion of the conventional way of thinking is common in both naive realism and sophisticated philosophical & scientific theories.  
 
 
 

 
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