RE: Cons and Facades - Welcome to My Nightmare Part 2.Bb

From: Chris Lofting (ddiamond@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 20:47:13 BST

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From: "Chris Lofting" <ddiamond@ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: RE: Cons and Facades - Welcome to My Nightmare Part 2.Bb
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 05:47:13 +1000
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Vincent Campbell
    > Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2000 7:39
    > To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'
    > Subject: RE: Cons and Facades - Welcome to My Nightmare Part 2.Bb
    >
    >
    > Thanks for this.
    >
    > You've sprung me on Wittgenstein here, as this is a general sense
    > of what I
    > thought one of Wittgenstein's views was, and not something I can cite page
    > refs for. The bit I'm thinking of is the notion that a 'cat' is
    > not a 'cat'
    > because the word contains some essence of the object it is describing, but
    > only because 'cat' means 'not a dog', 'not a cow' etc. etc.

    This is the viewpoint from the ~A where we can identify something by what it
    isnt; we use context to shine light on the text. Negation is just another
    'harmonic' as far as the world of ~A is concerned. Science uses this a lot,
    especially in QM etc .. problem is that it is a bit like Plato's cave and so
    we have to wrestle with shadows :-)

    best,

    Chris.

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