On Tuesday 03 August 2004 10:08, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) (cobaco@linux.be) [040803 09:38]: > > > anarchy > > > n : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting > > > from a failure of government) [syn: {lawlessness}] > > > > > > either. there everyone has her own agenda and does what ever she > > > sees fit. that results in confusion, corruption, loss of vision > > > and selfishness. > > > > The above definition of anarchy is plain wrong, it should drop the "and > > disorder" part: > > no, there were more, definitions, similar in content. try "dict > anarchy" yourself. chances are that you do not mean anarchy but > something else see for instance : http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aanarchy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anarchy http://unless.freeshell.org/anarchy.html > (it *is* the nature of anarchy to be undirected > and threfor orderless). perhaps heaven, eden or paradise? (c: undirected -> orderless is a false statement. To understand way that's so take a look at for instance boids (or any other emergent system). think of the difference between (military) discipline and self-discipline, > People tend to use words in other contexts and with new meanings > then what they meant originally. that way language evolves. > *that* does not change the original thing words described or > their nature. nope, a lot of people just tend to take 'undirected = orderless' as a given which is definately false. This fallacy is (IMHO) the reason so many definitions of anarchy include the disorder/confusion part. -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
Attachment:
pgpSxdx8pVkPl.pgp
Description: signature