Yes Marsha, and you know the difference between high quality and low quality, and that no one need tell you these things.
Cheers, Mark On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 1:06 PM, david buchanan wrote: > >> The MOQ has a dispute with the metaphysical assumptions of empirical science >> but it is based on experience and that's what makes it work. As a radical >> empiricist, one cannot reject the empirical data. In that sense, the MOQ >> retains an element of realism. We carve out everything, as James says. We >> sort experience into all kinds of concepts but experience itself does not >> bend to our will. Experience as it is immediately felt and lived in the >> concrete comes with real resistances against which we must struggle and we >> don't always win. Empirical reality pushes back such that concepts like >> sharpness, heaviness, and redness can be put to use in experience without >> any problems for a whole lifetime. That resistance is what gives rise to >> concepts about objects in the first place. I'm the kind of realist who >> sometimes burns his hands on the oven and I do not think it was an illusion >> when the broken drinking glass nearly sliced my pinky off. "Red" might be a >> deduced concepts that only > has meaning in relation to human eyes, but the redness of the blood was real > enough for me. Such concepts are pragmatically true rather than objectively > true. Again, the pragmatic truth is one that agrees with empirical reality in > the sense that it successfully operates within experience, not in the sense > that it corresponds to an objective world of physical things in themselves or > an ideal world of eternal Forms or anything like that. > > > Marsha: > And for Adolph and company, the pragmatic truth of the holocaust was one that > agreed with empirical reality in the sense that it successfully operated > within their experience. > > ___ > > > 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
