yes Marsha SPOVs are good at this, is it a human being, a mate, a nurse, an animal, a rival, a threat, a messenger, a saviour, a traitor, a guide, an inconvenience, a sister, a mother, etc, that stands before me?
DM ----- Original Message ----- From: "MarshaV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life? > 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/ > 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/
