The great post-modern error is the glib assumption that words themselves not only describe but define reality: if you call a wolf a rabbit, it is. No, it damned well isn't.
@wil_da_beast630 a rose by any other name is still a rose.
@wil_da_beast630 I remember postmodernism getting big while I was in college in the 90s. They thought they discovered a truth about reality, but actually just discovered a great propaganda tool. Changing language changes people’s perception of reality, not reality itself.
@wil_da_beast630 Wait - if I say they're 'wrong' doesn't that define reality? According to their reality?
@wil_da_beast630 It's the end of a false path that started with Cartesian equivalence. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it may well be a mechanical duck decoy.
Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. ... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened" – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs. -- Looking Back on the Spanish War in 1943, George Orwell
@wil_da_beast630 Difference between those who scored higher on verbal SAT than Math SAT and the reverse. Only wordcels think that way.
@wil_da_beast630 It only "works", when you apply it to concepts that are constructs, as far from reality as possible. Another reason they want you to believe everything is a construct. "Hey, the definitions of wolf and rabbit are arbitrary, and animal species are on a spectrum." - only half jk
@wil_da_beast630 So She can't have a penis?