Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2013-07-29 Thread Eddo Rats
Hi All This discussion sounds to me a bit like a bunch of caveman who want to tie down an escaped prisoner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ Kind regards Eddo (prefers to be free thank you) 2013/7/29 MarshaV val...@att.net David, On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:04 AM, David Harding

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hi David (H), (David M mentioned) David H you reminded us of: The value of assuming things exist (before) we experience them. Apart from the hierarchical / privileged use of the word before I'd say spot on. Maybe I'd say as well as, at appropriate times, rather than simply before. This is of

Re: [MD] theories of truth

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Horse, There isn't enough time in the word to respond to every point you made earlier in this thread and as you pointed out I wasn't responding directly to any question put to me anyway. All I will says is, to your points about sloppiness and gibberish vs clarity and precision: Yes it's a

Re: [MD] DQ vs. Intellect?

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Horse, There isn't enough time in the word to respond to every point you made earlier in THIS thread and as you pointed out I wasn't responding directly to any question put to me anyway. All I will says is, to your points about sloppiness and gibberish vs clarity and precision: Yes it's a

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Owen Barfield already said it pretty well (in Poetic Diction): As the secondary imagination makes meaning, so the primary imagination makes things. Ian On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David (H), (David M mentioned) David H you reminded us

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2013-07-29 Thread David Harding
djh: I don't know I haven't been reading David Morey. But I'm not saying there is only 'good reasons' in science to make assumptions. I'm saying that there are good reasons (and we actually do this all the time) to make assumptions that things exist before we experience them in our daily

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2013-07-29 Thread MarshaV
Hi Ron, [David] But can you not see how this is against the MOQ which differs from Zen in that the still values static patterns and the trail of evolution they create? [Marsha] I value static patterns, and I am not sure that Zen does not value static quality. Doesn't Buddhism warn

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2013-07-29 Thread MarshaV
David, On Jul 29, 2013, at 7:36 AM, David Harding wrote: djh: I don't know I haven't been reading David Morey. But I'm not saying there is only 'good reasons' in science to make assumptions. I'm saying that there are good reasons (and we actually do this all the time) to make

Re: [MD] kill all intellectual patterns

2013-07-29 Thread fbroeze
Hi, This is my first submission to this discussion group, so please let me know if I'm doing this incorrectly! I'm a philosophy enthusiast, and from what I'm reading you're actually referring premises, as these are the building blocks of reasoning, which forms the basis of the scientific

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ron and All, I was shocked the other day to realize that I didn't know what I was writing. My logic was totally words, without intellectual participation! When I examined this further I realized that I was upset, I was not calm. Logic stresses me in a discussion of the evolution of levels

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread david buchanan
David Harding said to Marsha: “If we are to ever discuss metaphysics we have to 'pretend' that these static qualities existed before we ever encountered them.” “This was the whole point of Paul Turners two contexts. In the second context static quality exists before we encounter it. In

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread David Harding
[dmb] Hmmm. I think David H has misconstrued the situation rather badly (and I'm quite certain that Marsha has produced nothing but evasions and dismissals). It's not just inaccurate to say that I'm trying to talk about the MOQ from context 2 rather than context 1, I think it's a bit

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread david buchanan
Doctor Ant said to David Harding: David, I rather like the phrase “pretend” here though “Context 2 of the MOQ” (to use Paul’s terminology) is a little more than just pretending! If I’m having critical surgery, I don’t want the surgeons just to be pretending; I want them to be – at the very

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR
[DMB] For the second time today, I'll object to the notion that my position is limited to just one of the two contexts. [Arlo] Yeah, I think this entire two contexts has been drawn into polar views, and I doubt this is what David Morey intended (at least I didn't read this into his writing).

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread David Harding
djh said to Ant: Ant - It is a good idea when talking with folks to change your words and even your perspective to explain things to them. Despite her claims to the contrary - Marsha fails to see the value of assuming things exist before we experience them as we do in the second context.

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread David Harding
[DMB] For the second time today, I'll object to the notion that my position is limited to just one of the two contexts. [Arlo] Yeah, I think this entire two contexts has been drawn into polar views, and I doubt this is what David Morey intended (at least I didn't read this into his

Re: [MD] The Two Contexts of the MOQ

2013-07-29 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR ajb...@psu.eduwrote: [DMB] For the second time today, I'll object to the notion that my position is limited to just one of the two contexts. [Arlo] Yeah, I think this entire two contexts has been drawn into polar