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| BANNED Posts: 583 | 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 Last edited by pam699; Mar 20, 2007 at 04:24 pm. Reason: add |
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| formerly Isherwood Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,209 | If you start another thread on the same subject, we'll begin closing them. This is a waste of time and bandwidth.
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