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To: Alamo-Girl
Truth. A worthy word project. Since the Pope mentioned that he would want dignity until death, I looked up the word dignity. Then I looked up every associated word used in the definition of dignity, and every word used to define those words. Etc. until down to body parts. It is quite a constellation, similar to the constellations of meaning mentioned by Schopenhauer in 'Will and Representation.' Four hours later I had an association list, and eight hours after that I had a flowchart [Pflow, really powerful for this]. There is no meaning to dignity that is not on the chart, excepting some Derrida-esque deconstruction or Lacan-ite higher level synthesis that would not be in the usual range of common meaning.

Did this also for 'evil', since that seems to be a recurring theme lately. 'Truth' would also be worthy of the method. It needs some serious free time to work even one term. Maybe it is worth it, maybe not, but many times a term is used in a way that assumes everybody knows what is meant, while a rigorous analysis would show that use meaningless and useless.

151 posted on 04/06/2005 9:29:33 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
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To: RightWhale
Fascinating, Rightwhale! I do hope you decide to tackle the term "truth" as a project. It would be very interesting to know how the meaning of the term has changed over the years.
199 posted on 04/06/2005 11:24:30 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl (Please donate monthly to Free Republic!)
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To: RightWhale

Care to share the results? Sounds interesting.


274 posted on 04/07/2005 9:10:35 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: RightWhale
A Labor of Dignity as opposed to the Dignity of Labor.
333 posted on 04/07/2005 1:52:37 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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