Hi Ron, First of all, Marsha considers any knowledge to be a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a form of knowledge. This would make knowledge of something a form of knowledge. Anyone can see that this is simply a play on words, and will not lead anywhere.
For Quality to be a monism, it must be conjectured to exist as an entity, as described by Marsha as "the source of all that exists". That is, it must exist separate from "all that exists". I do not believe that this is a useful interpretation of Quality, for then we revert to religious aspects of such metaphysics. Others, including myself, have suggested that Quality is "The Event". That is, it does not underlie any static phenomena, but is the process of such phenomena. This Event is occurring in the present tense. An event can have a tendency, and in MoQ this tendency is "betterness". In Taoism this "event" can be translated as "The Way", which reading of the Tao Te Ching will reveal (if read in that way). The tendency of the Way is to defy resistance. One issue in the modern world is that we tend to embrace resistance. By describing Quality as the cause of results, we are not left with anything static to hold on to. One can personalize such Quality by describing it as an Intention, or a Relationship. A relationship exists between two things (for example), but is NOT either of those things. In fact, one can simply turn the logic and say that the relationship CREATES the two things. I have brought this in to the discussion a number of times; one time poetically by describing Quality as "the golden threads" that lie between, create, and holds together. In another analogy which I have used, Quality is like the "event" of lava pouring through a fissure. Always coming anew and building. Not to be taken literally of course. When I explain Quality to others around here, I have found that by using the "event" metaphor, those listening can intuitively grasp what I am presenting, and stay away from the concept of monism. I am not sure if this is useful to you. Cheers, Mark On 6/28/12, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > Marsha had stated to Joe: > > The context for my comment was quite an indictment of the intellect's > shortcomings by Schopenhauer. I think, though, that the value can be > improved if the dualism implied by knowledge-of-some-thing is understood and > remains as hypothetical. The MoQ is afterall a monism (with Quality the > source of all that exists.) At its highest, static (patterned) quality may > represent the best value available at the moment, but it does have its > fallibilities At least, imho. > > > Ron asks: > Some questions directed at Ant- > > Is Quality a Monism? firstly, it should be clear we are speaking of static > quality and when we are speaking > of monads we are speaking about unity, oneness, whole. It tends to lend to > the idea of completeness. > > The encapsulization as it were. > > > > .. > 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
