8.30.2010

The Ground Zero Mosque (Transmutating Realism)

Fantasy and nonsense has invaded our language and culture: if I say, The Ground Zero Mosque, you understand what I'm talking about--even though it isn't a mosque, and it isn't at Ground Zero.

I can hear the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit explaining the logic of it all to me:
If it isn't a mosque, then it isn't at Ground Zero.  Inversely, it isn't at Ground Zero, and therefore it isn't a mosque--however, our truth values are transmutating.  Because conversely, if Ground Zero is Ground Zero, and a mosque is a mosque, then The Ground Zero Mosque at Ground Zero must be a mosque at Ground Zero, otherwise it wouldn't be The Ground Zero Mosque.  It would be absurd to talk about The Thing That Isn't A Mosque That Isn't Located At Ground Zero: no such (no)thing can exist.  Yet, it really does exist.  Therefore, it must be real.
Advocates of realism will complain that reality isn't being realistic.

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