This is an index of my posts on my persistent emphasis on the illusions of abstractions and the myth of definitions. Last Updated 6/2015
On Definitions of Abstractions
- Prescriptivists
- Illusion of Stability: the printing press
How to Make Abstractions
- The Reification Fallacy : this is how the whole problem begins
Examples of Abstractions (in alphabetical order):
- Scientism: a link to a good article
- Existentialism: Existentialism does not Exist
- Culture: Does Culture Exist?
- Definitions: The Myth of Definitions
- Evil: Evil
- Freedom: Adjectives for Abstractions: “Freedom”
- God : Fighting an Imaginary Being, Secular gods: Abstractions
- Green: The Hour of the Monkey
- Human Nature: The Human Nature Myth
- Identity: “Identity”: a fiction?
- Life: “What is Life?”
- Language vs. Dialect: “Language vs. Dialect“
- Religion: Religion Does NOT Exist
- Science: Envisioning Nouns: Science
- Self & Me: The most dangerous religion: Me, “Many-Selves” (an index)
- Sound: Sound does not exist
- Truth & Beauty: Truth: A Christian Trojan Horse, Truth & Beauty: Deceptive Abstractions , Truth vs. truth,
More posts on Abstractions:
- Secular Gods: Abstractions : How atheists continue making gods
- Abstractions & the Lazy Mind: my new aphorism
- Adjectives for Abstractions: Freedom: a remedy for slippery abstractions
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