Spot on, Marsha. In fact, that section is covered in my next posting of my tortoise-like crawl through the Annotations. It's already to send, as soon as I get my laptop from my daughter.
John On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:59 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I think your quote may be in the Copleston Annotation: > > "The MOQ is not opposed to materialism as long is it is > understood that materialism is a set of ideas." > > > Marsha > > > > > > On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:52 AM, David Thomas wrote: > > > Marsha, > > > >> I'm not getting your indignation... > > > > That's because I'm not indignant. What you believe is what you believe. > > > > Your original post says: > > > >> You criticize Bo's point-of-view, yet from your other post you talk > about > >> human animals and the evolution. The MoQ is not about human > >> animals, but static patterns of value, and the evolution that the MoQ > >> references is the evolution of static patterns of value. > > > > If I had to characterize a philosophical POV that is closest to mine it > > would be pragmatic philosophical realism. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism > > > > Somewhere that I can't find right now I believe that Pirsig suggested > that > > the MoQ subscribes to some form of realism. Your statement "The MoQ is > not > > about human animals" denies the most basic claims of philosophical > realism. > > So your views of reality, and the MoQ, and mine share so little common > > ground that any discussion would be more like a discussion of religion, > than > > philosophy. > > > > That is all that I was trying to convey. > > > > Dave > > > > > > 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 > > > > ___ > > > 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 > 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
