Re: More on what memes are made of

From: Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 05 2000 - 15:22:24 GMT

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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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    Robin Faichney
    

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