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A Satirical Allegory
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Let us imagine that a law professor has gone up to Harvard and has
are the basis for reality. Put another way, linguistic deconstruction shows us
what reality really is. Jones then takes the example that he learned at
ultimate nature of the Cliff. Jones starts out with a nice picture of a cliff
face of rock at the base of the Grand Canyon. He points out that the word
society and must be exposed by deconstruction for what it really is, that is, a
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culturally arbitrary covention which lends a certain trajectory of meaning
idealist approach to this question. Over 400 years ago Shakespeare asked
“would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” In this context, I would
ask, “would a cliff by any other name stop being a steep rock wall?” The
answer is no.
by itself disclose the nature of reality. It may say something useful, but not
deconstructs ‘Cliff’ itself. So, for example let us say that there are several
different words for the word “Cliff,” such as cliff, cliffo, rocko, etc. I
suggest that however much we deconstruct the words, cliff, cliffo, and
rocko, that all other things being equal the real cliff itself will be there the
front the real cliff rock face, I think that he will find that if he walks into the
cliff face he will break his nose. In fact, I would argue that to prevent this
from happening over and over again, Professor Jones would have to get into
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a backhoe or other machinery and physically dig out the cliff face until it no