JanAnders, I bet there has been more than a billion words written in addressing the Western philosophical understanding of truth. If there has been any value to those billion words, I think that RMP would say it is in the intellectual inquiry and analysis, not any belief.
Marsha On May 27, 2013, at 4:30 AM, Jan Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
