The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72319   Message #1768652
Posted By: 282RA
25-Jun-06 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Matter and Spirit
Subject: RE: BS: Matter and Spirit
>>I like the cut of your jib 282RA, but you let yourself down with wild generalisations like that one. They are labels for concepts which are not yet clearly defined, and as such are immeasurably useful. If not for the labels we would not be able to discuss the concepts.<<

But most people do not understand the difference between the concept and the label. They assume one is the other and hence Christianity. You can go into any church on a Sunday and listen to some hotshot throwing out words like "spirit" "matter" "God" as though these are completely understandable and have been proven beyond all doubt when a philosopher would instead ask now that we have these labels what are we labeling? And why couldn't we switch the labels around or do away with them altogether? When you assume you know what the label means, you're already wrong. And too many people assume they know what the label means.