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F6 - Okay, I give...you can most certainly shovel serious crapola a helluva lot faster than I can.


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F6, lol, LOVE IT! .. initially I had in my post to Steph, at the end, something like 'am sure F6
will be able to help me with this' .. took it out at the last minute .. rotflmao! .. good on ya, matey!

Seriously, I really irrevocably .. lol .. do appreciate what you are saying, and agree, though have to admit, i do struggle with your way of saying it sometoimes .. LOLOL .. i LOVE the way your .. syntax? .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax .. drives me to check check check ..

Please don't take that as a negative in any way (my failing) and i LOVE reading your posts that sometoimes drive
me back to CHECK concepts and words which you are obviously (as a more learned and scholarly man) very familiar with ..

Dialectic is easy now .. The word "dialectic" originates in Ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in his Socratic dialogues. Dialectic is based on a dialogue between two or more people who may hold differing views, yet wish to pursue truth by seeking agreement with one another.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic ..

Materialism .. i always just took as a disposition, like an inclination to possession of material things flat screen tvs, hummers etc .. you know one of the preoccupations of our Western consumer society .. but i see it's soooooooooooo .. lol .. more than that .. and is easy now ..

In philosophy, .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy .. the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence .. is matter; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness ..) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory .. As a theory, materialism is a form of physicalism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalism .. and belongs to the class of monist .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism .. ontology .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology .. As such, it is different from ontological theories based on dualism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism .. or pluralism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(metaphysics) .. For singular explanations of the phenomenal reality, materialism would be in contrast to idealism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism .., neutral monism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_monism .. and spiritualism .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism .. rotflmao!

Yup, next time someone asks me if i believe in God, instead of just no . i decided a long time ago that the concept came from woans (lol) consciousness .. i shall reply, with an elfin glint in my eye, NOPE, as, Fidel Castro, i am a dialectical materialist, and then i'll try to deal with their WTF?

'dialectical materialism' as put forth in any such a formulation is as much pure bullshit as any other attemptedly neat and closed little ideological frame that purports to explain everything and/or to have an exclusive corner on defining truth -- and in its abstraction and reductionism it murders the actual relevance and utility of the concept of the dialectic -- which, properly understood, is nothing more or less than the inherent universal logic of the absolute particularity of social and personal history -- a logic which does not prescribe what ought to be but is essential to understanding what has been and is

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Reductionism ..

Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings. .. 4 links in there .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism ..

i almost don't have to check anymore ..

Thanks, F6 .. .. good exercises .. .. ..