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Dear Marsha What could truth be more than human belief? Human belief in Highest Value to Lowest Prize is worshipped daily at the stock market and in the modern churches of Consumism. JanAnders > > To bring this back to the subject: > > "Truth is a [singular] static intellectual pattern [singular] within a > larger entity called Quality. James had tried to make his pragmatism popular > by getting it elected on the coattails of practicality. He was always eager > to use such expressions as 'cash-value,' and 'results,' and 'profits,' in > order to make pragmatism intelligible to 'the man in the street,' but this > got James into hot water. Pragmatism was attacked by critics as an attempt to > prostitute truth to the values of the marketplace. James was furious with > this misunderstanding and he fought hard to correct the misinterpretation, > but he never really overcame the attack. > > "What Phaedrus saw was that the Metaphysics of Quality avoided this attack by > making it clear that the good to which truth is [singular] subordinate is > intellectual and Dynamic Quality ..." > > (RMP, 'LILA', Chapter 28) > > --- > > "The MOQ does not turn its back on the empiricist belief that the more we > analyse, the closer we approach to truth. Truth is [singular] the highest > quality static intellectual pattern [singular] and analysis has shown over > and over again historically that it improves the quality of intellectual > patterns." > > (RMP, 'Copleston Annotations') > > --- > > is [verb] > > 1. 3rd person singular present indicative of be. > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/is?s=t > > > > > 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
