> Hi Ron, > > Do you think betterness exists and can be sensed? > > Hello Platt, > I think better-ness is the act of exceeding standards > in the way of valuing the spirit of those standards over the > letter of those standards. > I think better-ness, as intellect, is conditional to the level it > applies to. > I think we are better-ness. > > to sense it is to "be"
Platt: I take that as a "yes" to my question. To follow up, do you agree with Pirsig? "In the third box are the biological patterns: senses of touch, sight hearing, smell and taste. The Metaphysics of Quality follows the empirical tradition here in saying that the senses are the starting point of reality, but -- all importantly -- it includes a sense of value. Values are phenomena. To ignore them is to misread the world." (SODV) Ron: Depends on the way you understand the term value to mean in this statement, are we talking biological value, social value, intellectual? value in terms of a general universal? that's a broad spectrum of meaning for one term. Value is the process of a complex bonding and decay. to ignore this process and it's patterns is misreading the world. To ignore dynamic Quality and cling to the static is to increase distortion. Static Quality is a distortion of dynamic quality. In this way I agree with the statement. 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/
