Greetings Paul, On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Paul Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Marsha, > > Marsha: >> There are times when an email forum seems totally inadequate. I sense >> deep caring and I naturally want to respond. I have not challenged your >> thesis, but admire your motive and effort. >> >> What dispute would you like to help resolve? Can you first set up the >> problem, as you interpret it? > > Well what I saw was a lot of debate about whether static patterns are > purely intellectual, whether everything is just an analogy, whether ideas > come before matter or vice versa, etc. The problem I see is that this > ignores, in my opinion, the basic point made by the MOQ that reality is > just what is valued, "reality" is itself subordinated to value. You wrote: "... reality is just what is valued, "reality" is itself subordinated to value." That "is" is a tricky word. But of course,,, I accept the MoQ's central idea that the world is nothing but value > When you > start from that it is no longer necessary to say, for example, that static > patterns are really just this or that, whether inorganic patterns really > existed before humans. Yes, I agree it is no longer necessary. > By recognising two contexts or perspectives we can > value both sides of the debate as and when appropriate without claiming > either is ULTIMATELY better or more true than the other. Yes, I agree we can value both perspectives. > This hopefully > shifts the focus onto how the MOQ can be successfully applied to other > areas of inquiry and interest by selecting the best context for the > specific purpose, rather than arguing one against the other. > > Now it may be possible to formulate a single context which covers the value > of both but I haven't seen it. For explanation purposes, I agree that a two-context view can be extremely useful. Marsha 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
