From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 19:19:14 MDT
In a message dated 9/21/2002 7:08:59 PM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com quotes: In general, I think, it's a pre-scientific
`chunking' of our experienced world that coarsely aggregates people into sets
on the basis of some blindingly apparent discriminator--sex, say, or age,
height, skin tone, eye shape, hair type, verbal accent. We seem to have a
propensity to carve the world into groups of this sort,
I think you will find the General Semanticists refer to the process
you are describing as the process of abstracting. Abstractions as well as
higher and higher level abstractions aren't either good or bad -- but they do
seem unavoidable (even desirable) and they are dangerous.
The folks over at GS seem to recommend that we accept their utility as
well as their danger and then that we beware of them.
Ron h
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