Hi David, What do you suppose the term 'belief' is pointing to: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof? Are you comfortable with this analogy?
Marsha On Jun 16, 2013, at 7:28 PM, David Harding <[email protected]> wrote: >> [Paul quoted RMP] >> "When we speak of an external world guided by evolution it's normal to >> assume that it is really there, is independent of us and is the cause of >> us. The MOQ goes along with this assumption because experience has shown it >> to be an extremely high quality belief for our time. [This is what I call >> context (2)] But unlike materialist metaphysics, the MOQ does not forget >> that it is still just a belief - quite different from beliefs in the past, >> from beliefs of other present cultures, and possibly from beliefs we will >> all have in the future. What will decide which belief prevails is, of >> course, its quality. [And this is context (1)]"* > > Great quote Paul. Puts the two contexts in clear context. :-) > 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
