Greetings, Ron --
On Thurs, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:24 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote:
Ham had said: "Any philosopher who insists that existence precedes essence has made Being his fundamental reality. Essentialism takes the opposite view: Being is an experiential construct of essential Value." Ron: Which is the classic struggle between rationalism and empiricism. You are attempting to make rationalist arguments regarding the empirical point of view. So far, you have not been doing very well. To be more clear, the philosopher who insists experience precedes essence has made Being his fundamental reality. The philosopher who insists Being is a construct of essential value has made an idea his fundamental reality.
Which demonstrates why "rationalists" (by which I assume you mean semioticists) are unable to conceptualize beyond the written word. The "idea" that I have postulated is a conception of reality, not a rational argument based on artful wordplay.
I'm "not doing very well" in conveying this concept because "radical empiricists" who disguise their empirical ontology under the Quality umbrella are unwilling to acknowledge a non-relational source for the appearance of Being. They're still wondering how a universe made of Quality arises from nothingness.
Essentially speaking, Ham 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
