Hi Horse, I think reality can be known without concepts -- the hot stove example -- a pre- intellectual understanding of the Quality reality. To rationally communicate that understanding to somebody else, however, requires we use a "menu" of static intellectual patterns consisting of subjects and objects, the fundamental nature of language.
But, that brings up a question I've been wondering about. Is poetry (metaphor) within the intellectual level? Or is it more within the code of art? Or is it a bridge between the two, like the link between art and science at the cutting edge of the unknown? Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, Platt On 7 May 2010 at 22:51, Horse wrote: Maybe the fundamental nature of reality can't be contained by intellect but without intellect and a good metaphysics would we even know that there was a fundamental nature to reality. It's unlikely that we'd even have the concept of it because that's an intellectual pattern. And without intellect we would have no way of creating that concept. On 07/05/2010 20:48, [email protected] wrote: > On 7 May 2010 at 12:44, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > > [Platt] > "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu > and no food." (Lila, 5) > > [Arlo] > A quote from a book of metaphysics. > > A metaphor illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality cannot be > contained by intellect. 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/md/archives.html
