Greetings Will2, I do not think things are defined by their opposite, because there are no things-in-themselves. I do think that a pattern, a conceptual construct, chair for instance, can be understood as the opposite of _all_ that is not a chair. Marsha
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of markhsmit Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MD] MOQ: Treatment of Opposites I do not claim to be well read in the subject of MOQ, and I post this as a means of obtaining opinions. Recently, I read a post which suggested we exist somewhere in the middle of opposites. That is on a continuum between good and evil, pain and pleasure, up and down and so forth. This is a common theme in Taoism. The Yin and the Yang. While these may not necessarily be considered to be opposites, they certainly co-sustain each other in an active way. DQ and SQ are these opposites or do they interplay in a way similar to Yin and Yang? The question is how does MOQ deal with the concept of opposites?. I believe there is good quality and bad quality, high quality and low quality, different layers of quality which we transpose between. I would state that anything without an opposite exists. This brought me to my question, what is the opposite of a chair? Marsha has suggested (I think) that a chair is defined by its opposite. While I can understand this in terms of the presence of a chair (its opposite being its absence), I can't grasp this for the chair itself. Now the corollary is that everything that does have an opposite does not exist outside our subjective sense of reality. We could get into Aristotle's concept of pure form and all that, but I am trying to keep this simple. We then divide the world up into that which has an opposite and that which doesn't. So let's take existence, what is the opposite? We could say non-existence. But is this truly an opposite? Should we be be able to draw a line between opposites, That is create a continuum? What is half way between existence and non-existence? Then we come to light and dark, do these really exist or are they figments of our imaginations? What is truly dark? Enough of this BS for now. Willblake2 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/
