The Philosophy of Language
I've had a request and an amen to once again attempt a discussion of the word "race", a word we use rather indiscriminately. For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of...
My thoughts.
In a nutshell, the words we use, by virtue of that use, condition the way we think, until we arrive at the point where we take a truth (or unproven) as a given.
A prime example is "race". A simple consideration might be if we were to take this word as inherent and counterproductive to the problem of "racism", and therefore discontinuing the use of the word might aid the discontinuance of racism?
Dedicated to Cynthia (Pre-Doctor-Philosopher) Artis


Thank you Steve... but Racism (a different class of people/or a pattern of seeing people as different as us) is not only a word it's an action...
even if we remove the word.... the action is still present...