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%VIOLENT DESCRIPTIONS 791205
It is the nature of some realities that to attempt to
describe them in a particular manner is to violate them.
The manner of description may be incongruous to the nature
of the reality, and so to attempt a description in a
manner which is inappropriate to the reality --- is to
violate the reality. To describe an intimate friendship
with a differential equation will not do justice to the
friendship. Thus, not all descriptions are helpful. Even
if the description is the best description of its kind, it
may not be helpful, and may even be a violent description.
Not all true statements about reality are helpful. The
nature of a reality may be changed by making statements
about the reality, even if the statements are absolutely
true statements. Realities are not always independent of
descriptions of the realities.
Objective realities are not much changed by
describing them. Many subjective realities depend very
much upon how they are described, and may not exist in any
consensual way apart from descriptions of them. To
describe such realities may create, change, violate,
destroy, etc. them. The language used to describe such a
reality molds the description of the reality, and so the
reality which is described/realized by the process. Thus
it is important to choose the language with care.
There are realities of which we can be aware without
description, and such awareness may be shared without
describing them, by mutual awareness of the realities
through non-descriptive pointing. There is a difference
between pointing to a reality and describing the reality.
Pointing is not of itself likely to be violent; even
though contextually pointing may have violent overtones---
as in the case of ridicule by pointing to make fun of a
person. Charitable pointing helpfully calls attention to
a presence without trying to define the nature of the
presence.
Attitudes toward realities are modeled by how we
describe/point them. Two descriptions may be both true,
and occasion quite different attitudes; thus they are not
equivalent. Which true description is preferred is thus a
value judgment based upon affective considerations. Thus
true statements are not value neutral.
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