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First, I do believe I was writing about the MOQ being monistic, where reality, the world, is said to be nothing but value. Second, I changed the word I used for expanded rationality for hypothesis to hypothetical. Marsha. On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:37 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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
