John said: J: I don't [think SOM is a social pattern]. I think our society operates according to a philosophy that has SOM as it's metaphysical basis.
But, I think John you were also trying to get at not just that it "operates" that way, but that it does "necessarily so". I think it does necessarily do so for basic linguistic reasons - whether we think of the patterns as socio-cultural-intellectual, they involve humans sharing ideas about reality, subjects about objects. We necessarily operate in language "as if" our metaphysics was SOMist, but that doesn't stop us actually holding that it isn't - and having 15 years of fun mis-communicating with each other on MD. Ian 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
