SUO: Re: Colorless Green Events Process Furiously
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Pierre Grenon wrote:
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> Jon,
>
> I still don't see
> your point but
> nevermind I
> have another
> question.
You must have noticed the tendency here and elsewhere to try
and wring ontologies whole cloth from linguistic analysis?
That's all that I meant by that. There was a time, long
time passing, when this was rather soundly drubbed as
"syntactic reification", that is, the quest to find
subjects and predicates in nature because they are
found in language, unessentially more generally,
to project our conceptual categories onto the
world with no critique of the resulting fit.
Jon Awbrey
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