DMB You say 'maybe' and seem to forget 'can't'. The reality of these modals needs explaining/describing and understanding for any decent description of experience I'd say. Nothing to do with theology, have you still not read Sneddon? How your obsession with theology seems to block the flow of blood in your brain.
Ta David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "david buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [MD] The Trouble With Wilber > DM said: > The status of the possible/impossible is entirely an aspect of the actual. > My point is that what is possible/impossible is a function of the actual > but > it is not the same thing as the actual. > > dmb says: > Oh, for Pete's sake. Do you really imagine that there is an adult > english-speaker who does not know that there is a difference between the > actual and the possible? Again, my problem is the way you are using "the > possilbe", as if possiblities were pre-existing "eternal ideas" that sit > around waiting to be actualized. Its the crypto-theological nonsense that > bothers me, not the distinction between manifest and maybe. > > dmb > > _________________________________________________________________ > PC Magazine's 2007 editors' choice for best Web mail-award-winning Windows > Live Hotmail. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
