Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 61 | 524 | For View more quotes about example">example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance. |
| 61 | 525 | There would be a conceptual difference, of course, or a logically possible difference, but it would be of little practical moment. |
| 61 | 526 | Analogously, if everything happened to be, say, red, we might not know that anything was red. |
| 61 | 527 | Presumably, we would not have a word for "red," or even be aware that other colors might exist. |
| 61 | 528 | Consider now a culture in which there is a clear, sharp, important, even momentous, distinction between the free and the not free. |
| 61 | 529 | On such a world, where not all are free, freedom becomes quite important. |
| 61 | 530 | It is no longer meaningless or immaterial. |
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For example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance.
There would be a conceptual difference, of course, or a logically possible difference, but it would be of little practical moment.
Analogously, if everything happened to be, say, red, we might not know that anything was red.
Presumably, we would not have a word for "red," or even be aware that other colors might exist.
Consider now a culture in which there is a clear, sharp, important, even momentous, distinction between the free and the not free.
On such a world, where not all are free, freedom becomes quite important.
It is no longer meaningless or immaterial.
- (Plunder of Gor)