Jos, Value as 'the good, the bad & the ugly' has been a topic rolling around in my mind for a long time. I've tried to start up the subject a number of times, but no takers. Maybe I'm the only one who wants some investigation and clarification.
Regardless, I interrupted you. This was not a subject of this thread. I apologize. Marsha At 09:49 AM 3/3/2007, you wrote: >Hi Marsha, Case > >Ah yes, appologies for jumping in without reading the earlier parts >of the thread. > >I would see "bad" as a very restricted categorical adjective applied >to complete absence of good, but as an entity it seems completely >incompatible with the structure of the MOQ. > >If one is using "good" in its absolute sense to refer to DQ, then >"no good" doesn't just mean bad it means non existent. Worse than >that it means, not the thing that is already "not other" before >existence/non exixtence gets defined. But our groundstuff encompases >everything so that just isn't allowed. > >Ham - can I ask your opinion here > >I'd like to establish how a hypothetical "absolute bad" might realte >to essentialism (I know the question doesn't fit properly). > >What is "absence of essence"? > >Jos > > > > > Greetings, > > > > It was very exciting when Case stated "bad is also a noun". That's > > what I was trying to imply in the above statement. > > > > Marsha > > > > > > > >> > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MarshaV > > Sent: 03 March 2007 14:15 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [MD] dualism redux (to Ron) > > > > > > At 09:03 AM 3/3/2007, Jos wrote: > > > > >Hmm.. > > >Not that close, "betterness" implies direction, as would "worseness" > > >both being descriptions of realtive positions. "Goodness" in MOQ is > > >an unreferenced absolute. > > > > > >Is there an opposite of good other than absence of good? > At 05:50 PM 3/2/2007, you wrote: > > > > How close is "betterness" to "goodness"? > > How close is "betterness" to "badness"? > > In both cases, it is probably better to know than to not know. > > ??? > > 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
