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On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>>My point is that arrow, trajectory and system are all
>>equally real.
>
>But if "meaning has [no] place in the foundations of memetics", then of
>what use is _reality_ in it?
>
>;-)
I'll ignore the emoticon just in case you're only half-joking.
The concept of reality belongs to the system we're using to examine the
foundations of memetics, which I suppose we might loosely call "philosophy".
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