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From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: More on what memes are made of
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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".
>
Meaning has an essential place in the foundations of philosophy;
one of its main branches (along with logic and ontology) is
axiology, or the theory of value (usually divided into ethics - theory
of the good - and aesthetics - theory of the beautiful). Logic itself
has to do with the structures of true, false and meaningless
statements. I should know; I have a degree in the field.
> --
> Robin Faichney
>
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