Marsha said to 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.
dmb butts in because Marsha and John make butting in look so cool:
It would make sense to post this quote if Andre had asked Bo to explain or
define Quality. The terms "static" and "Dynamic" aren't used much in ZAMM and
they don't appear in this quote at all but don't you think that's what he's
saying here? It is another version of what he says in Lila, that there must
always be a discrepancy between concepts and reality because concepts are
static and reality isn't.
I don't it makes much sense to use the static/Dynamic distinction to shut down
a conversation about the meaning of concepts. This is a philosophical
discussion group, after all. So what could be more appropriate than asking a
question about the other guy's concept?
As for the yes/no thing, I'd guess that Andre just wanted a straight answer.
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