When I wiki "essentialism" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism the explaination of it is akin to Plato's forms and holds that these forms are fixed and absolute. Ham, Is the Essentialism described in Wikipedia the same, close, or another school of thought when compared to your Ontology?
Marsha submitted a relevent quote From, 'A brief summary of the Metaphysics of Quality' by Robert Pirsig October 2005 stating that MOQ is a method of investigation, a tool for a more accurate perception and thus allows one a greater field of accuracy in value assessment. If we are followers of anything we are followers of open possiblities with an emphisis on freedom from preconcieved prejudices and an understanding that these prejudices play a role in our decision making and the shaping of the universe we perceive. Dualism, SOM, I have argued that this is the way we percieve reality that once we begin to understand things, by definition, we can only understand it by it's relational value. General differential reference is described oppositionally, this coupled with the minds tendancy to simplify and exaggerate generally leads the mind to the broad assumption of self and other, mind and matter. The question is: is the natural way we percieve reality how in fact reality behaves? are we projecting our perception onto the fabric of natural phenomena? turns out we do, with the evidence being in everything from our logic to mathmatics. only in the past century has science realized that reality is composed of varying forms of interrelated energy such as kinetic, potential, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, and mass energy. Energy may be converted from one form to another, but it is never created or destroyed. This principle, the conservation of energy, was first postulated in the early 19th century, and applies to any isolated system. According to Noether's theorem, the conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that the laws of physics do not change over time. This might be the only absolute the fact that energy is not created or destroyed but that it's presence is a constant and infinite. Dualism dissolves in the light of this theory for all(including space and consciousness) is energy. To me, to speculate any further would be an exercise in self projection and in all probability inaccurate. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
