## Metadata - Author: [[freefairandalive.org]] - Full Title: Read It - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.freefairandalive.org/read-it/ ## Highlights - Our point is that deeper registers of perception matter every bit as much as daily political polemics. Or even more. German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer once pointed out that it is a mistake to believe that one has to talk about politics to change politics. He was right. We need to talk first about our deepest presuppositions about the character of the world. - The study of the nature of reality and how it is structured — the windows through which we see the world — is called ontology. - In a metaphor often used by German physicist Hans-Peter Dürr, fishermen who use nets with a mesh of five centimeters may understandably conclude that there are no fish in the sea smaller than five centimeters. After all, three-centimeter fish never show up in the nets. If you are committed to certain presuppositions about reality, it will be difficult to escape the larger ramifications of your nets of perception. - philosophers would call our perspective a relational ontology. In a relational ontology, the idea is that relations between entities are more fundamental than the entities themselves.