From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 17:55:18 MST
In a message dated 11/5/2002 6:41:43 PM Central Standard Time,
charleshixsn@earthlink.net quotes: We are only saying look at the data. The
facts explain themselves. Ron h.
Then replies, "But as a definition it's a bit lacking."
Charles,
If you will read about Korzybski's General Semantics you will learn
that definitions may either be extensional (you point to an apple) or
intensional (you describe an apple) both have advantages.
You keep wiggling around trying to use intensional definitions because
they allow you to be so abstract that you neither have to admit your real
world results nor devise ways to avoid repeating those same results in the
future. You will get to continue enslaving people causing great human misery
as well as costing millions of human lives.
Of course those of us that do not wish to enslave people nor to be
enslaved ourselves keep pulling your feet back to the fire of reality.
Ron h.
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