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Greta Thunberg: It's time to overthrow the West's oppressive and racist capitalist system (www.msn.com)

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[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And I'm arguing that concepts have no independent reality apart from words.

The word is not the concept. But the concept is also jot the material reality. You're reifying concepts and treating them as if they have some sort of transhistorical reality.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I completely agree that the word is not the concept, that's literally what I've been saying in the past few comments in several different ways.

I'm not reifying concepts and treating them as if they have some sort of transhistorical reality. I'm saying that at any point in time we have a particular understanding of the concepts which builds on prior ideas.

I feel like we're just talking past each other at this point, and we're clearly not getting anywhere. I propose we stop here. Nothing new has been said for a while.