At 04:15 AM 3/8/2008, you wrote: >Hi Marsha >You are surely a good person, a good painter too, but it's a bit >frustrating labouring over letters for hours and all you get is this .. >giggle. I see no rational refutation of the said dictionary definition >of "intellect" (being the abiility to distinguish between objective >and subjective) Try again. I re-quote it for you benefit. What's the >fault in my reasoning? > >Oxford Advanced: > "The power of mind to reason contrasted with feeling and > instinct." > >Power of mind we may omit, what's not p.o.m. in SOM? > >Reason is objectivity itself and feeling (emotions) the very >embodiment of subjectivity ( instinct even lower down, biology >IMO) thus intellect is the power of distinguishing between what's >objective and what's subjective. > >Bo >
Greetings Bo, Fault? Analogy, analogy, analogy... Your posts are sticky like s/o flypaper. Marsha >On 7 Mar 2008 at 2:54, MarshaV wrote: > > > At 02:31 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote: > > >Marsha > > > > > >Bo before: > > > > >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 > > > > > >Marsha: > > > > My dictionary's definition of intellect doesn't mention > > > > subjectivity or objectivity. > > > > > >Bo now: > > >We haven't yet got MOQ-based dictionaries, so in that direct > > >sense you will never find it, but my "Oxford Advanced" says: > > > > > > "The power of mind to reason contrasted with feeling and > > > instinct." > > > > > >"Power of mind" we may omit, what's not p.o.m. in SOM? > > > > > >Reason is objectivity itself and feeling (emotions) the very > > >embodiment of subjectivity ( instinct even lower down, biology > > >IMO) thus intellect is the power of distinguishing between what's > > >objective and what's subjective. > > > > > >I don't deny that other dictionaries defines it differently, but > > >there's always an element of something above mere knowing your way > > >around town or understanding the workings of things. > > > > > >LILA: > > > > > 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. > > > > > >Marsha: > > > > Primacy doesn't imply exclusivity of subjects and objects. > > > > > >Speak about clutching straws. > > > > > >Bo > > > > Greetings Bo, > > > > Now you have made me giggle. Maybe it's something about painters that > > we can create our own special world out of very little medium. > > > > Go for it Bo. Fly! Fly!! Fly!!! > > > > 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/ > > > > > > >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/ 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/
