John said: Well so does "Quality" or "Good", Craig, have many differing definitions and its really nice to pin down the ambiguities when you're talking metaphysics and all... and a bleating plea of mine since I joined this list, for a cogent discussion on the ambiguousness of Quality, has never been answered, please, make my day. Tell me the difference between Quality and Love, for instance. Because from where I'm sitting, I can't quite make any sort of metaphysical distinction.
dmb says: Love must be a species of Good, a kind of Quality. But if we tried to substitute the terms in the hot stove example, for example, it would be a bit silly to say the negative face of love gets you off the stove. I think Quality is more like whatever aesthetic value presents itself at the cutting edge of experience and this immediate value force is often unlovely. The idea, I think, is that this pre-conceptual aesthetic charge is supposed to guide experience and it can only do that by being attuned to the actual situation. Following the Good sometimes means going further into that situation, making some kind of adjustment to the situation and sometimes it means getting the hell outta there. Sometimes the cutting edge of experience will raise the hairs on the back of neck. The idea here is simply that those "feelings" constitute real information, that they are a very important part of the overall cognitive process that gets you off the stove or helps you dodge that rotten tomato . The other main reason we can't equate Quality and Love is that it sounds too Hallmarky. Thanks, dmb _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ 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/
