----- Original Message ----- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Date: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:16 pm Subject: Re: Catherine, can't you read? was Re: No Sex Please - We'rePost-Human!
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> Catherine Driscoll wrote:
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> > Yoshie -- the concept of dependence is about hierarchy --
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> Concept X is about whatever the conceiving agent wants it to be about,
i guess i;m more stupid or limited than I had thought because this really does not make sense to me -- any given concept has a shape or force outside of an individual conceiving agent?
I think Marx would have been shocked. But no matter -- who cares what he would have thought anyway?
So... whatever I contemplate has no existence apart from my desires... frankly that's very reassuring. I'm awfully grateful Carrol.
Yours, Catherine
> so this doesn't seem to be germane. You seem to be using some
> metaphysical _concept_ of hierarchy the way Christians use Satan.
> Just a
> tautological explanation for everything that's bad.
> And when it isn't bad but a biological necessity, you say King's X No
> Fair. That isn't
> hierarchy. This header, incidentally, referred to your reading of my
> original post, not to your reading og Austen. Very good readers indeed
> can misread texts as complex as MP. But in effect, when I said X, you
> said, No, X not X.