[MD] From Psychology to Empiricism

[MarshaV]

I have no interest in discussing this with.  I wish you well.  - Marsha  



On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:55 AM, david buchanan wrote:

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> Marsha said:  Radical Empiricism is a reified concept.
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> dmb replies:
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> It's pretty clear that you do not even understand the meaning of the term "reification", let alone radical empiricism.
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> "Reification (also known as hypostatisation, concretism, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating as a "real thing" something which is not a real thing, but merely an idea. For example: if the phrase "holds another's affection", is taken literally, affection would be reified.
> Note that reification is generally accepted in literature and other forms of discourse where reified abstractions are understood to be intended metaphorically, but the use of reification in logical arguments is usually regarded as a mistake (fallacy). For example, "Justice is blind; the blind cannot read printed laws; therefore, to print laws cannot serve justice." In rhetoric, it may be sometimes difficult to determine if reification was used correctly or incorrectly.
> Pathetic fallacy or anthropomorphic fallacy is a subset of reification, where the idea is not only treated as being alive, but as being intelligent and human-like.
> Etymology: From Latin res thing + facere to make, reification can be 'translated' as thing-making; the turning of something abstract into a concrete thing or object."
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> If you want to communicate with english-speaking people, you gotta get rid of the belief that it's okay to have your own private definitions. 
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