ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fake News, John Searle, Language Game
27 Mar 2017
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There are things such as disease, germs, and so on that exist whether or not we agree to believe that they exist. However, there are some things like love that only exist because we decided and agreed that they exist. Some things, like mental illness, we do not know are one which side of the line. The ontological status of mental illness is something we are trying to make sense of. We are posing questions on the nature of the real and the nature of meaning. We do not see the world as it really is, but as we already expect it to be, desire it to be, or fear it to be. Our environment primes us in perverse ways in these ways. For example, you can see a black and white picture of two faces, and decide that one of them is a black person while the other is white even though both faces are exactly the same shade.
