On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Intellectual Level is the set of Patterns of Value that hold with two > key points. > > - SOM says Quality with a capital "Q" does not exist because quality is > nothing more than an attribute based on subjective opinion. > - SOM says that the Universe is composed of nothing more nor less than a > collection of subjects and objects. > > This is about as minimal a definition of SOM as I can get down to. If you > take these two key assumptions as the entire basis of the Intellectual > Level > I believe all else follows logically; and despite the argument that this is > too narrow or restrictive, I think you will find that everything short of > the MoQ and equivalents that cannot otherwise be considered a Social Level > value will apply. For example, things like science, atheism, democracy, > empiricism, economic theories and surely a bunch of other things I can't > think of right now all follow as a logical result of these two premises > alone. What can be misleading is that many of the concepts derived from > these two basic Intellectual Patterns appear to be in irreconcilable > conflict with each other. That is surely true, but the conflict is only in > the details and not in the fundamental, unspoken assumptions upon which > they > are based. It is these two unspoken assumptions that are pervasive and > insidiously present in everything in the purview of the Intellectual Level. > > > [Platt] You have identified the keys to understanding the intellectual level -- the two unspoken assumptions that determine its basic nature. Thanks for pinning it down so correctly and succinctly. Best, Platt 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
