[Arlo previously]
It would be interesting to perform a find/replace of "Quality" with
"reality" in ZMM/LILA and see if there are any places where such a
substitution makes no sense, but I don't have my e-versions on this computer.
For example, though, in this quote you provided. Quality is the
primary empirical reality"of the world. We would get: Reality is the
primary empirical reality of the world. Since "the world" is also
contained by "reality", this would lead to: Reality is the primary
empirical reality of reality.
[Arlo adds]
Going through my copy of LILA, here are some interesting substitution results.
Normally your mind says to these ideas, "Go away, I'm busy," but that
attitude is deadly to [Reality].
The central reality of mysticism, the reality that Phaedrus had
called "[Reality]" in his first book, is not a metaphysical chess piece.
[Reality] is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable in the sense
that there is a knower and a known, but a metaphysics can be none of
these things.
Since a metaphysics is essentially a kind of dialectical definition
and since [Reality] is essentially outside definition, this means
that a "Metaphysics of [Reality]" is essentially a contradiction in
terms, a logical absurdity.
"May I come out and fight?" the author said. "My exact statement was
that people do disagree as to what [Reality] is, but their
disagreement is only on the objects in which they think [Reality] inheres."
"Forget God. Do you personally think Miss Lila M. Blewitt is a Woman
of [Reality]?"
If Phaedrus answered that Lila had [Reality] then he would be saying
sex was [Reality] which was not right. But if he said Lila had no
[Reality] the next question was, "Why were you sleeping with her?"
But if [Reality]... is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes
possible for more than one set of truths to exist.
Dynamic [Reality] is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality...
Does Lila have [Reality]? That's the most important question of all.
But if you answer "yes" or you answer "no," You lose your own [Reality].
It isn't Lila that has [Reality]; it's [Reality] that has Lila.
Nothing can have [Reality]. To have something is to possess it
... Jean Baptiste Lamarck, maintained that all life was evolving
toward perfection, a synonym for [Reality].
"Survival of the fittest" is meaningful only when "fittest" is
equated with "best," which is to say, "[Reality]."
[Arlo adds]
This is only from the first one-third of the book, I'll play with
more later. This isn't to say that every instance where you could
make this substitution results like these, but it seems the majority do.
Maybe I'll take a look at doing this with ZMM later too.
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