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Old Mar 20, 2007, 04:21 pm   #1 (permalink) (top)
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Is reality constructed by langauge

hey once you realise reality is constructed through definitins/langauge u will see clearly the aggendas of polticians religions and scientist/ medical world-
they only try and define reality like when conception is- to allow a window for their aggendas ie medical experimentation on embryo for if life does not start at conception it lets them of the hook for murder


same for bush he defines torture so as to let him of the hook for torture

freedom democracy evil good are all construction of reality by langauge

be careful of those incharge of the dictionary/definitions there will always be a hook to grab u -dean allows you to see this and protect yourself

what do you think


deans argument-for the construction of rreality by langauge

to speack in your language
the signifiers ie chair only have signification via the language matrix of which they are part

there may be objects in the world ie the signified
but these signified only have meaning through their signifiers
each culture has different signifiers for these objects or signified
that is why the signified object ie "plane"
has diferent signifiers to give it meaning in an animist culture than it does in a western culture

the only way you can confront the world of objects is via language and each has different signifiers for the objects of the world

your culture constructs the world [of objects] via its language matrix of signifiers - in this way we can talk about the social construction of realiy via langauge

the language u use was given to u by your culture it defines delimits the range of signifiers u have to give meaning to the world of objects

what you call "chair" by your signifier might be called stool in another cultures matrix of signifiers
what your matrix of signifiers call a plane another cutures matrix of signifiers might call a thundergod

sassure claim about signifiers in fact means language constructs reality in that it gives meaning to the world of external objects or to the abstract world of science maths or the imagination
we r prisioners in our matrix of signifiers -the limits of our reality are the range of our signifiers which give meaning to our prision
in this way the buddhist notion of maya comes in
reality is an illusion where the objects of reality are just fictions of our language/signifiers

as the existentialist say existence preceed essence
as dean would say language/signifiers preceeds being

you being existence who or what you are is just the fiction constructed via the language/signifiers of your culture

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