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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Glendinning Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] Salami & Wisdom ? Marsha, Dave, by way of light relief (drivel if you prefer), whenever anyone quotes a dictionary definition as part of an argument, I give them this link ... http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html Infectious. Regards Ian On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, MarshaV<[email protected]> wrote: > >From Wiki: > > "The term (Relativism) often refers to truth relativism, which is the > doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always > relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a > culture." > > The MoQ support multiple truths. Seems to me the frame of reference within > the MoQ would be the value. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of david buchanan > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Salami & Wisdom ? > > > Marsha said: > Just for the record, I still say the truth of knowledge, which is static > patterns of value, is still relative to immediate experience. > > > dmb says: > > According to my computer's dictionary, the term "relative" has seven > different definitions. Four of them are adjectives. Three of them are nouns. > None of them refers to "relativism". In your sentence above, the term > "relative" is used to mean that static patterns are "related" to immediate > experience or that concepts exist in "relation" to immediate experience. If > you mean to say that concepts are derived from experience, I'd agree. > Unfortunately, that has nothing to do with relativism. As the little joke > about me and my cousin being related to each other was meant to indicate, as > the explanation about panrelationalism was meant to indicate, relativism is > NOT merely a claim that one thing is related to another - whether than > relation is genetic or conceptual or anything else. That's just not what > relativism means. That's just not how people use the term. Well, not > informed people anyway. > It's hard to me to believe that you are really THAT confused about what the > word means. Don't take my word for it. Look it up. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. > http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery > 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/ > 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/
