At 07:09 AM 3/6/2008, you wrote: > If one extends the term intellectual to include primitive > cultures just because they are thinking about things, why > stop there? How about chimpanzees? Don't they think? > ..... Our intellectual level is broadening to a point where it > is losing all its meaning. > >Intellect is the ability to distinguish between what's subjective and >what's objective, my dictionary says so and I have referred to it >repeatedly but it's water on geese. Another quote from LILA >shows that S/O is intellect
Bo, My dictionary's definition of intellect doesn't mention subjectivity or objectivity. > The culture in which we live hands us a set of intellectual > glasses to interpret experience with, and the concept of > the primacy of subjects and objects is built right into these > glasses. Primacy doesn't imply exclusivity of subjects and objects. Marsha Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars... 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/
