Subj : Dictionary.
To   : John Wilson
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Mon Oct 30 2000 01:26 pm

 -=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to FRANK MASINGILL <=-

 DO> Aren't you simply reifying his metaphor?

 JW> Damn! My (small) dictionary des not contain the word
 JW> "reifying"

 JW> I have probably wanted to reify a metaphor *dozens* of times!

 JW> Ahem.

 JW> I don't know what it's for My unrefied metaphor.. I hope that
 JW> brfore I die I will learn to reify...

        The trick is not to learn TO reify but to RESIST what
appears to be a kind of natural tendency of the libido dominandi to
reify.

        I often state the problem like this.  There are three kinds
of truth, MY truth, YOUR truth and THE truth.  Actually, this refers
to reality.  Reification would be mistaking MY truth or YOUR truth
for THE truth.  In dialogue we cannot escape a logos of truth as our
vision but we must maintain openness toward THE truth which is the
reality that cannot be known to humans qua human simply because it
does not lie finished and observable before us.  That's what it
means to be ONLY a participant in the shaft we're on and not its
engineer.  

Frank 

--- PPoint 2.07
 * Origin: Maybe in 5000 years (1:396/45.12)

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