Hi Ian, I'll bite. What does this have to do with the first division of the MOQ? Is a Hawkwind or Van derGraaf Generator gig static quality or Dynamic Quality?
On 30/03/2011, at 6:48 PM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > Hi David (H) > > You summarised your impression of Mark's take thus: > > "If everything is static quality", you seem to say.. "then that > appears to be a very sad existence indeed." > > (You go on to point out lots of non-static things in real life ...) > > Mark's take hinges on the "everything" in the first clause being - > "everything that we can objectivise and discuss in language in a > metaphysics discussion forum (or anywhere else)". That would indeed be > a very sad existence, but of course life, the universe and everything > is a lot more than that, as you point out. > > As you perceive it's a source of frustration or sometimes confusion > for many on MD .... that we can only ever skirt around reality ... but > that is the reality of any discourse .... a reason why we need to meet > in the flesh at Hawkwind or Van derGraaf Generator gigs ;-) > > Metaphysics discusses meta-life and meta-reality, it's not real-life itself. > > Ian > 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
