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This-essay is a8103021.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %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. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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