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Semantics
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So to say that you don't believe in the "supernatural" is a contradiction in terms - because it means that you also don't believe in the "natural". Neither can exist without the other.'
'Oh come on', I said impatiently. 'That's just semantics'.
'Yes, you're right. But the whole world is made up of semantics and yours are those of the seventeenth century. Even though you think you are modern.
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Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.
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― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
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