Hello everyone On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:59 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Dan Glover wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:35 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Dan Glover wrote: >>> >>>> Hello everyone >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Marsha said: >>>>> ...at the moment, I think the best answer would be: >>>>> all-that-is-opposite-from-non-gravitation, and I sometimes visualize the >>>>> pattern as a cloud of probability. >>>>> >>>>> dmb: >>>>> >>>>> "Definitions are the FOUNDATION of reason. You can't reason without >>>>> them." (Emphasis is Pirsig's. ZAMM, page 214.) >>>>> >>>>> "A metaphysics must be divisible, definable and knowable, or there isn't >>>>> any metaphysics." (Pirsig in Lila, page 64.) >>>> >>>> Dan: >>>> >>>> Exactly. Come on, Marsha and Mark. If you want to know what >>>> gravitation is, look it up. Or even better, try reading ZMM... or >>>> re-reading it, or whatever it takes to get the ideas contained there >>>> to sink in. >>>> >>>> Good God almighty... >>>> >>>> Dan >>> >>> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> There are times when RMP uses words and concepts that go beyond the >>> dictionary definition, >>> and dictionaries differ. for instance there are words in German that do >>> not have an equivalent >>> in English. >> >> Dan: >> >> Yes, but those German words have to be defined in some fashion, >> otherwise they're just gibberish. There may not be an equivalent >> English word, but there are definitions none the less. > > > Marsha: > About the words that RMP uses uniquely for his own purposes > in explaining the MoQ? For instance, the word 'quality' has no > division, in the dictionary, defined as dynamic or static. Look it > up. And I did post "I use a dictionary all the time. I agree that > you cannot reason without definitions." My point was that > patterns are more than definitions.
Dan: Patterns are definitions though. > > >>> >>> Good Goddess almighty... >> >> Yes, I like her too! > > Good to hear it! You know it! Dan 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
