Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Things

"To be human is to live not in a world of things, but in a world of the meaning of things"- Lee Thayer


Very true. I got this from one of my professors. I just want to share my thoughts and what this means. The world is filled with things that are just there. They are later labeled and given a meaning by humans. What is a cat if it's not given the name "cat"? If not given a label, does it still exist? Of course it does. Names are given for social meanings, they don't actually determine what it is.

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