On Dec 22, 2014, at 5:42 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote:
DMB: >> To take ideals, abstractions, universals and the like as actual things is >> the most persistent feature of Idealist (or Rationalist) philosophers. > > > JC: > So to take Quality, as an "actual thing" (meaning existent, I assume) would > fall under the same heading? For is not DQ an ideal? And an abstraction? > and a Universal? I don't see how you can't see that. It's flabbergasting. Ron comments: That us just it, for an empiricist, The Dynamic is not an ideal or Abstraction. Not a metaphysical Chess piece, but actual immediate Experience, the burning in the now. You may argue that immediate Experience is composed of analogies And ideas, and we use those analogies to understand make sense And give meaning to immediate experience but those analogies Are only ever simplifications and Are not the source of those ideas. . 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
