dmb, Why don't YOU compare and discuss? Or is it your nature to rather project, misrepresent, spout sarcasm, irony, parody & insults when other compare and discuss.
Marsha On Apr 17, 2013, at 8:14 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Compare and discuss ---- > > > "There must always be a discrepancy between concepts [static quality] and > reality [Dynamic Quality], because the former are static and discontinuous > while the latter is dynamic and flowing.' Here James had chosen exactly the > same words Phaedrus had used for the basic subdivision of the Metaphysics of > Quality." -- Robert Pirsig > > > > > > > "Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not > supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual > original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a > concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less > similar cases—which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and > thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal > things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as > another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily > discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing > aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists > in nature the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves > were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted—but by > incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, > trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model. We call a person > "honest," and then we ask "why has he behaved so honestly today?" Our usual > answer is, "on account of his honesty." Honesty! This in turn means that the > leaf is the cause of the leaves. We know nothing whatsoever about an > essential quality called "honesty"; but we do know of countless > individualized and consequently unequal actions which we equate by omitting > the aspects in which they are unequal and which we now designate as "honest" > actions. Finally we formulate from them a qualitas occulta which has the name > "honesty." We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is > individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no > concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains > inaccessible and undefinable for us. For even our contrast between individual > and species is something anthropomorphic and does not originate in the > essence of things; although we should not presume to claim that this contrast > does not correspond to the essence of things: that would of course be a > dogmatic assertion and, as such, would be just as indemonstrable as its > opposite." — Friedrich Nietzsche > > > > 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
