Admittedly leptons and quarks are not made up of atoms. From a not-stupid perspective, however, justice and freedom are made up of atoms, since any manifestation of freedom and justice will exist in the physical world on a super-atomic level. Someone who is not physicalist would no doubt object to the ideological underpinnings of that analysis.
That there would be ideological assumptions behind what eveything was and how it would be percieved seems to go without saying. How could there not be? I'm not sure what "the commonly defined meaning of everything" is, though, or that our usage is stable enough to be able talk about something being true "for the normal definitions of 'X'."
I'm largely staying out of the portions of the discussion where the "if everything is X, then X is meaningless" arguments are brought up, but I've been seeing it enough that I'm starting to headdesk.
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Date: 2008-02-23 04:19 pm (UTC)That there would be ideological assumptions behind what eveything was and how it would be percieved seems to go without saying. How could there not be? I'm not sure what "the commonly defined meaning of everything" is, though, or that our usage is stable enough to be able talk about something being true "for the normal definitions of 'X'."
I'm largely staying out of the portions of the discussion where the "if everything is X, then X is meaningless" arguments are brought up, but I've been seeing it enough that I'm starting to headdesk.