[MD] From Psychology to Empiricism

[Mary]

>... "Justice is blind; the blind cannot read printed laws; therefore, to
print laws cannot serve justice."



Justice will never be served for poor Justice if she cannot read the laws of
justice.  

Oh, the injustice of it all!



> 
>  Marsha said:  Radical Empiricism is a reified concept.
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> dmb replies:
> 
> It's pretty clear that you do not even understand the meaning of the
> term "reification", let alone radical empiricism.
> 
> "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."
> 
> 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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