Hi Bo, You sly old fox. You realize I have been away from this for several years and am seriously rusty. Driving back from a nice barbeque ( High 60's today unusual even for here) with my daughter and suddenly it struck me. Back "in the good old days" when I first joined, knew next to nothing about philosophy, ZaMM/Lila, or debate strategies I used to watch you constantly frustrate all comers. (and still do) Then it dawned on me what I had picked up from watching but totally forgotten. You were always very careful about the points you chose to respond to and when answering always stayed focused on your message.
RMP, a college writing teacher with a "master" degree in rhetoric uses three straight forward English language words: intelligence-intellect -intellectual and you deny that he is using them properly and/or maintain the definitions are either wrong or misguided. Bold moves. You cannot be an intellectual prior to having an intellect. You cannot have an intellect prior to having intelligence. Having an intellect does not make you an intellectual. Some degree of intelligence is required all along the way. Just like evolution proto-man/the shrew ,much as he may have like to, didn't get to skip over the dinosaur era they he had to keep burrowing for eons. But my suspicion that this is all a farce was finally was confirmed with this reply to Platt. > In ZAMM he saw Quality (DQ) as the origin of subjects and objects > (SOM the only static level at that stage). Then LILA, but here he > started with his Quality=Reality obsession as if managing to prove it > that would complete his mission. This made the DQ of MOQ > something else than QUALITY - an irrelevant static by-product - > hence the Quality//MOQ atrocity. Your position on the MoQ is you like nothing at all about it. Not DQ/SQ split or relationship, not the arrangement of SQ, not the relationship of SQ to subject and objects,not the tie to radical empiricism, pragmatism, and the list goes on. Of course that is solely your decision and it may be a good one. And you came to this decision what maybe 10 years ago I'd guess? In plain English, you could give a shit about the MoQ you're here for the debate. Have fun. You won again. Dave 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/
