/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7886818
It isn't a 'piss poor' analogy and even if it was, what about David Hume's example of bread. You eat it expecting to nourish you, it might not, but you still think that it will. Or if I'm at a traffic light and it's green, I would expect the cars to stop and not run me over.

It about the signified and the signifier. The signifier being the object and the signified being it's meaning. If I see someone wearing the uniform of a cop, then associate that person being a cop. If I associate someone being a creep by the image of being fat, glasses, poor hygiene, etc. Then I associate that person being a creep. It doesn't have to do with anything with if that person is a creep or not. I associate certain aspects of that person with that of a creep.

If a 'friendly stranger' offers you a ride home after school for example, you're going to stay the hell away from him because you'd associate him with a pedophile.