Hi Bruno Marchal Heraclitus' point was that in this contingent world, nothing remains the same.
As I understand it, the naturalist fallacy is to judge that something is good (in an ethical sense) because it is natural. Heraclitus makes no such judgment. I think H meant not the same river (such as the mississippi), he meant that the river (whatever river) would not be the same, even a movie would show visually that it has changed. And force, velocity, temperature-- none of these remains constant, as the appropriate sensors would show. Roger Clough, [email protected] 11/5/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-04, 08:28:11 Subject: Re: The One is not a number but a metaphor On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:13, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno Marchal > > Sorry, I misconstrued the river/man analogy. Heraclitus > said instead that a man cannot stand in the same river twice > (or even from moment to moment). It's just a statement > of contingency. I don't believe that. In my childhood, every summer I did stand in the same river. Of course a river is a living being, it changes shapes, and moves in the panorama, and the quality of the water decreased, alas, for some time, also. But it was the same river, at least in the sense that I am the same guy who took pleasure standing in that river. Heraclitus commited the "naturalist error" (with respect to comp) to identify a river with the local constitution that he assumes the existence. But that is for me in contradiction with most use of the word river in geography. A river is already a high level natural entity. Le temps s'en va! Le temps s'en va! Non Madame, le temps ne s'en va pas. C'est nous qui nous nous s'en allons! (French poet: literally "times go away! times go away! No Miss, times does't go away, but *we* go away). Bruno > > > > Roger Clough, [email protected] > 11/3/2012 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen > > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > From: Bruno Marchal > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-11-02, 13:39:24 > Subject: Re: The One is not a number but a metaphor > > > > > On 02 Nov 2012, at 11:50, Roger Clough wrote: > > > Hi Bruno Marchal > > When I refer to the One, I think of it not as a number 1 > but as a metaphor. > > > > > Well, the ONE is not the number 1. OK. > > > The Soul is the identity of a monad, including the > supreme monad. The soul does not change, even though > the monad is constantly (rapidly) changing. The river > keeps changing, but the man standing in it remains the same. > > > Hmmmmmm.... why not. Too much fuzzy to be sure. Only the universal > soul can be sais not changing. > But once the soul has fallen, it forgets its universal origin, and > undergone quite big changes. > > > > > > > > So in like manor, we can consider the One (as a metaphor, > not as a number) as the Soul of the universe, the Universal > Soul. > > > > I don't think so. the soul is the inner God, the one you can awake > by different technic. The outer God, is beyond conceivability, even > if comp can identify it with the very complex set of code of the > arithmetical truth. > At least in the arithmetical interpretation of Plotinus. > > > Bruno > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en > . > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
