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                             %CONTEXTS OF PROPRIETY 810302

     For each reality there are contexts of propriety. The
elephant belongs in some places,  but not in a china shop.
Usually  there  is trouble  occasioned  when  any  reality
becomes dominant  outside  of  its  contexts of propriety.
The  elephant  in a china shop will  tend  to dominate the
situation  and  cause trouble.   A  sledge hammer  on  the
workbench of a watch repairman would also be out of  place
and tend to cause trouble.  A tool is useful only if it is
within  its  context  of propriety.    Usefulness  is  not
absolute.

     Words and the concepts to which they point are useful
only  within  their  contexts of  propriety.    Words  and
concepts which are outside their contexts of propriety can
be  very misleading;  they can cause great damage if  they
are permitted to dominate the scene when they are  outside
their context of propriety.  The concept of determinism is
useful within the context of Newtonian Mechanics,  but can
do great damage within the context of human relationships.

     The damage inflicted by a tool which is out of  place
may   not  be  so  much  direct  damage,  as   damage  via
exclusivity.    The out of place tool may dominate a scene
in such a way as to exclude from use a tool which would be
much  more helpful in the scene.   If a carpenter  who  is
supposed   to  fasten wood  together  with  nails, becomes
fixated upon the beauties of a screwdriver and demands  to
use the screwdriver to drive nails into the wood, then the
screwdriver would has become the facilitator of damage  by
exclusivity.    Damage  via exclusivity is likely to occur
when  new  tools which are excluded within the context  of
their propriety replace  traditional  tools where they are
appropriate just for reasons of "fashion".   For  example,
scientific objectivity is a useful tool in some  contexts;
but   not   in   the   contexts   of   intimate   personal
relationships.     Being   exclusively   concerned    with
objectivity  in the social sciences is thus  damaging  via
exclusivity.  In time more helpful conceptual tools may be
found,   but  not  until  people cease  being  exclusively
concerned  with tools which have proven their contexts  of
propriety, only in dealing with with things which are  not
alive in any meaningful sense.

                                                                                                                               
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