Ok, Marsha, here goes: Also, when does opinion collapse into a assumption and then flatten into > conclusion?
The best example I can think of illustrate my understanding and terminology of assumption and conclusion is when RMP concludes Quality is real by assuming that it is not. Do you get my point? I can explain more, but then I am almost as bad as my wife's brother when it comes over-explaining, like the girl spelling banana, just tell me when to stop. Assumptions are the necessary premises for an argument which comes to a conclusion. Sometimes, in fact most often, the assumptions are completely valid. "I assume you comprehend english?" would sound condescending if I used it in an argument. But that would not technically be a technical argument. That'd be an example of that nasty sophistry that we are taught to despise in logic class, which is a whole 'nother issue. Now, back to your original question about where I got my assumption of "everyone craving community" it threw me, as your questions often do, for I didn't say "craving", that was your choice of word. And my question would be then, where do you get your assumption that my words can be construed to mean "everyone craves community"? For I certainly don't believe that. I would say everyone needs community on some level; just to get here it took two people to commune for a short time. There has never been, in any history, myth or anthropological record anywhere evidence that humans have ever lived in anything but co-operative social groups - usually of about tribe size. That's my conclusion. 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/
