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To: cornelis; Son of Liberty; logos; PatrickHenry
"Stabilizing significations" only get their stability in a meaning that transcends it. If that cord is broken, then shattered is the pitcher at the well.

Amen to that, cornelis! The positivists/materialists have been holding court for more than two hundred years now; and look at the devastation they have wrought. If the logical outcome of their nonsense -- the evidence of which we see all around us in personal disorder and social breakdown -- isn't proof-positive of the bankruptcy of their fundamental premises about the structure of reality as they play out in the "real world," then I don't know what is. Mankind needs to do a whole lot better than that.

Maybe we should just start with the obvious: Just because you can't see a thing with the "naked eye" doesn't mean it isn't there.... All meaning transcends the (immanent) objects and relations it seeks to explain; and thus, is necessarily intangible, "invisible" in the naked-eye sense.

Hey, it's not much; but it is a start. All my best -- bb.

131 posted on 11/30/2001 10:07:07 AM PST by betty boop
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To: betty boop
All meaning transcends the (immanent) objects and relations it seeks to explain; and thus, is necessarily intangible, "invisible" in the naked-eye sense.

I love you, BB; but I just don't understand this at all.

132 posted on 11/30/2001 10:35:22 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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