You Might Be a Nominalist If …
Two Red Flag Words Revealing Much About You
Talk about being prompted! My muse will not stop tapping me on the shoulder until I write this essay.
I have previously written about the words ‘collective’ and ‘nuance’, but perhaps some of my readers think I am just latching onto them for the sake of something to use as a topic. Perhaps they need some verifiable evidence. Well, if that’s you, then here you go.
Let’s take a deeper look at the word ‘collective’. At first glance, it seems innocent enough. I mean, in today’s world, it might seem like a great way to superficially talk about what affects a large group of people in a top-down scenario from their environment or medium. That’s one way to consider the application of what affects them, but it really becomes fuzzy when you flip it around and try to apply how the ‘collective’ affects their environment or medium from a bottom-up scenario.
A ‘collective’ indicates a collection of individual particulars. The underlying understanding in its use implies that each entity is fully separate from the other entities in the collective. Think of gathering a collection of unique bottle tops. They are separate but gathered together. The only thing they have in common is that they are all bottle tops. Each one has a completely different message or value stamped on the underside…
