Well I'm sure there's congruence, Dave, since they both came from the same individual..
But the exact quote, is from Copleston. I'm gonna get my lazy ass in bed on a sunday morning out and find my laptop, right now. John On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:16 AM, David Thomas <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > 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
