Marsha, > 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." > No actually it is this one from the SODV paper:
> The bottom box shows inorganic patterns. The Metaphysics of Quality says > objects are composed of "substance" but it says that this substance can be > defined more precisely as "stable inorganic patterns of value." This added > definition makes substance sound more ephemeral than previously but it is not. > The objects look and smell and feel the same either way. The Metaphysics of > Quality agrees with scientific realism that these inorganic patterns are > completely real, and there is no reason that box shouldn't be there, but it > says that this reality is ultimately a deduction made in the first months of >an infant's life and supported by the culture in which the infant grows up. This last sentence, properly understood, pulls together philosophical pieces from; philosophical realism, pragmatism, radical empiricism, and the MoQ. No religious mysticism required for understanding. 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
