Hi DMB (and Matt et al) You said DMB a Rortyized version takes the metaphysics and the quality out of the metaphysics of quality.
That made me smile again. Despite all the pejorative stuff about hacking and amputation - I get the feeling this catchphrase of yours is a good summing up. I don't think Rorty (or Matt ?) would disagree with you about "taking out the metaphysics". As to what "quality" that leaves, I suspect that remains a pragmatic question about whether the adjective "pure" really adds any (practical) clarity to experience, given that the core quality of experience remains essentially "indefinable". ie having removed the metaphysics, the remaining difficulties making distinctions are largely linguistic. Pragmatically your differences seem minimal, other than the (not so minor) matter of abandoning the metaphysical aspect. And you conlcuded But its clearer to me now and comforting to know that our little debate reflects a larger debate among professionals. I like to think it's evidence that we haven't been wasting time. Not all of it, anyway. No doubt about that. (Looks like I really will have to get that Alexander reference.) Ian 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/
