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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (70060)	1/8/2003 10:09:24 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You don't think it helps put the whole urge to "label" things (and people) in a greater context? in a context that might make labeling seem quite normal- in fact that labeling is the way we think? My point was that we think in labels, and we think that way because language is labeling. Words are not the things they name, they are merely labels for the things the name. Since our thought processes are entrained to this, why would not labeling in all its other forms be the most natural thing in the world to us. Is this a useful way to look at things? I think so. Why is it useful? Because it helps explain behaviors and put behaviors into context. I also think that by recognizing the above, we may give ourselves some hope of examining our labels, and by examining them, growing in perspective.