At 10:48 PM 5/29/2007, Ian wrote: >Marsha, Platt, > >That quote from Wilber is a favourite of mine. Part of my armoury >against ignoring "excluded middles". It is so natural to divide things >into two - every analytical cut creates two "opposites" from one >whole, and it's so easily to forget and take this cut for granted. >Making distinctions is indeed essential, but the implied opposites are >entirely incidental. > >In fact every cut is just a thin dividing line drawn across a >continuum, and the two halves need not be more than a hair's-breadth >apart, even though theire extremes may be poles apart. (The northern >and southern hemispheres seem distinct opposites, but half a degree >north is every bit as equatorial as half a degree south.) > >Ian
Ian, I'm trying to think about the process the individual (SPoVs) makes to focus on this rather than that. It's very funny, you know, very funny indeed. 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/
