Hi David, Yes. (ie a key thing is that "freedom" of expression and rationale, free of calls to authority or tradition, and pragmatically and cooperatively motivated towards "value".)
And Yes. (to your other mail - wisdom and rhetoric - I was illustrating that there are few hard and fast, objective, definitional distinctions between intellectual and social. Just pragmatic ones.) Ian On 11/14/07, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, all > > Ain't it just about some guy or girl standing up > and putting their argument and resisting trying to > justify what they are saying by any religion, or > divine right, or tradition, or power, or authority, > etc, and just saying this is how I think we should > describe and understand things, and its better than > the other ways I know of, and it fits in well with this > other stuff we agree about, and it seems to make > sense of my experience, and your experience, > and our experience, and look we might be able > to give it a go, and we may even be able to use > this approach to bring about stuff in a certain way > that would be good for us, given what we value, > and so I ain't no prophet, I ain't no king, I ain't > your boss, I'm just a guy who makes up good ideas, > I'm a god damn intellectual, and I can't make you > do these things, but come on let's agree to do it. > > Ta > David M > 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/
