Re: [MD] The Intellectual Level

2013-08-20 Thread MarshaV
dmb, “Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of

[MD] static patterns of value

2013-08-20 Thread MarshaV
On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:55 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: djh: Such an understanding cannot be captured in words by changing the meaning of things from static to ever-changing. Marsha: I have not changed the word static to ever-changing. Marsha: I have not changed the name of

Re: [MD] The Truth About Art

2013-08-20 Thread MarshaV
dmb, here is an additional few quotes I also find interesting: ... Spoken language is dynamic, and dictionaries can only track the changing meanings of word from one edition to the next. Old words are adapted to new needs, and new words are constantly being borrowed or coined. ...

Re: [MD] Marsha My Dear

2013-08-20 Thread David Harding
[Marsha] You seem to have a great deal to say on what you think I should be thinking. Now I am going to tell you what I think, I think you should work on yourself before giving unsolicited advice. Sorry Marsha, I thought you were here to explore RMP's Metaphysics of Quality and the MoQ's

Re: [MD] Marsha My Dear

2013-08-20 Thread MarshaV
djh, Not when you continually misrepresent what I say, make unfounded accusations assertions, make up evidence and tell me what I need to think. I don't consider any of that 'exploring'. Marsha On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:54 AM, David Harding da...@goodmetaphysics.com wrote: [Marsha] You

Re: [MD] Marsha My Dear

2013-08-20 Thread David Harding
[Marsha] You seem to have a great deal to say on what you think I should be thinking. Now I am going to tell you what I think, I think you should work on yourself before giving unsolicited advice. [djh] Sorry Marsha, I thought you were here to explore RMP's Metaphysics of Quality and

[MD] Rhetoric elegance

2013-08-20 Thread Jan Anders Andersson
Hi all dmb says: I think it's quite clear that there are all kinds of ways to describe intellectual quality WITHOUT getting it mixed up with SOM. Even after rejecting SOM for an expanded and improved form of rationality, an artful rationality, Pirsig still lists the basic criteria by

Re: [MD] The Intellectual Level

2013-08-20 Thread Ian Glendinning
DMB, Arlo et al, After I had said to Arlo ... Rather than working the definition of SOMism to death, I'm asking what does MoQish expression and argument have, that distinguishes it from SOMist expression and argument. dmb said: I think it's quite clear that there are all kinds of ways to

Re: [MD] The Intellectual Level

2013-08-20 Thread david buchanan
Ian asked: ... I'm asking what does MoQish expression and argument have, that distinguishes it from SOMist expression and argument. dmb said: I think it's quite clear that there are all kinds of ways to describe intellectual quality WITHOUT getting it mixed up with SOM. Ian replied: Agreed.