Hi Marsha
I kind of got the impression from Andre when he said "A simple yes or no
will do" that he was hoping for a simple answer and not one of Bo's
usual responses that have tended of late to be insulting and patronising
towards anyone that doesn't see things his way.
I'm pretty sure that Andre wouldn't want to force a yes or no answer
but, given what Bo had stated, Andre's question was easy enough to
answer without getting too complex - although I haven't noticed a reply
from Bo yet.
Cheers
Horse
On 08/03/2010 16:38, MarshaV wrote:
Hi Horse,
I had thought that the MoQ is beyond forcing a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer
within a philosophical discussion? It wasn't the 'begging the question', so
maybe my example was not a good one, if was the forced constraint.
``Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true
precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic
explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into
subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word
quality cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because
Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
(ZMM, Chapter 20)
While this quote does not specifically address the yes/no dichotomy, it does
point to the possible complexity of the response.
Marsha
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