Ah...Sabu. Who decides, then, what objective reality is? The notion that there's an objective reality relies on the belief that there's a social location from where/whence that reality can be determined. However, since people occupy radically different social locations...who is the one who gets to pronounce reality? As for nothing to mourn...you say this because you are an English speaker. For you there is nothing to mourn. However, if it was your own dear native language that was going extinct, you would have much to mourn, indeed.
On Jul 29, 2013 Isbel Ingham McKenzie wrote:
Ah...Sabu. Who decides, then, what objective reality is? The notion that there's an objective reality relies on the belief that there's a social location from where/whence that reality can be determined. However, since people occupy radically different social locations...who is the one who gets to pronounce reality?
As for nothing to mourn...you say this because you are an English speaker. For you there is nothing to mourn. However, if it was your own dear native language that was going extinct, you would have much to mourn, indeed.