Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, How can DQ/SQ be called a metaphysics? There is a response of a faculty that remains indefinable in MOQ. I suggest that emotions remain indefinable DQ, followed by definition in intellect SQ. There is one bridge that makes everything exciting. Evolution! There is an

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, I disagree that math is a form of metaphysics! Music and poetry are forms of metaphysics in allowing a freedom for definition. I feel that math is restricted to defined disciplines unlike reality which created levels in existence! Math is limited/unlimited, neither fish nor

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, Physics and metaphysics! DQ/SQ is a format for the reality we know. Definable SQ, indefinable DQ. The change in individuality in evolution formats individuality beyond the mathematical logic of individuality for intelligibility. If individuality becomes the format of

Re: [MD] Truth and Relativity 2.0

2012-02-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Woman/Man! Female/Male. It would seem, given the reality of conception and birth on this planet, that these would be easy concepts for different realities. DQ/SQ is without gender. Gender is not metaphysical? I am not about to agree that I think like a woman! Typical male

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I accept what you say but we are discussing a DQ/SQ format for metaphysics. The question becomes how can we logically experience the indefinable? We accept that we know the indefinable and go from there. That does not mean that there are no metaphysical questions to be asked about the

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I suppose there is a barn full of existence somewhere, but somehow DQ/SQ wants to divide it up! Joe On 2/6/12 3:56 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: All existence is intentional, otherwise it would not be here. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] Truth and Relativity 2.0

2012-02-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, Why do you feel you have to unravel something before you understand what it is? That seems to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Joe On 2/7/12 1:01 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you have more luck than I in unraveling this mess she presents.

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
, but it is not non-existent. Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark, Its seems to me the depiction of anything begs a question does it exist or not? I do not experience existence as analogous. Joe

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark I see no way to answer that statement. If I posit evolution as levels in existence, the study of non-existence is a different discipline of the incongruous, not in the purview of logic. Non-existence doesn't interest me. No concepts possible! Metaphysics is not the study of Physics

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, Its seems to me the depiction of anything begs a question does it exist or not? I do not experience existence as analogous. Joe On 2/2/12 4:33 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: As it has been said, any depiction of anything is analogy. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo,

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
as that which you experience. This was your suggestion. You can leave it at that and not define any more because we know what you mean. Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and all, I can't define

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David, Making a thing of DQ so I can respond to it changes the metaphysics of DQ/SQ where SQ represents the 'thing' by definition. Joe On 2/1/12 8:32 PM, David Harding davidjhard...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark and Joe, I think consciousness is ability to respond to DQ. What's wrong with

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, And? Joe On 2/2/12 5:36 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Joe said to Mark and all: If you look at the etymology of the word consciousness you see two roots Con scious With awareness or knowledge. ... dmb quotes Wiki: Sciousness, a term coined by

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David, This is the way I conceive DQ! IMHO There can be no conception of DQ alone. Evolution is DQ/SQ. When I place DQ in a sentence I am embodying reality in a concept SQ which is definable, and is only DQ by analogy. Evolution already has occurred. DQ is only analogous. There are no

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-02 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, WOW! With regard to my personal world! Let me count the ways! I think it is true that we always have one foot in the grave! Big Deal! Yeah! But who likes that! Joe On 2/2/12 2:31 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: Our personal world is only ours, nobody else can

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, I can't define the experience of DQ since the experience of the indefinable is indefinable. To what faculty for knowledge do I appeal? Emotions? I will never know DQ! Emotions format reality in metaphysics? Go girl! The beginning slice for metaphysical description cannot be

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-02-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, If you look at the etymology of the word consciousness you see two roots Con scious With awareness or knowledge. Two principles are involved, evolution and science. To make sense of that you have to posit an evolutionary description of reality conscious and mechanical or

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-01-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
:21 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Jan 30, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: DQ is indefinable not unknowable. Hi Joe, When RMP states that Dynamic Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable, I take unknowable to be in the explainable sense

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-01-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Metaphysics DQ/SQ is a format of reality. In terms of format, the pattern of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and definition may include the format of indefinable in a contrast of DQ and SQ. Evolution is a metaphysical format in existence. I accept DQ as

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-01-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
answer. Cheers, Mark On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All,, How do we know things? Has been a metaphysical question from the get-go.  I don't remember how Socrates dealt with that.  Plato proposed a world of ideas that we contact

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-01-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All,, How do we know things? Has been a metaphysical question from the get-go. I don't remember how Socrates dealt with that. Plato proposed a world of ideas that we contact...Aristotle proposed that the mind abstracts the essence from the image of the thing in the imagination and

Re: [MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

2012-01-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, Is understanding an intellectual abstraction? Understanding decides the relationship of true or false in perception. Certainly the metaphysics of Quality proposes the understanding of all of reality DQ/SQ. To make the jump that understanding includes all levels in evolution

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, MOQ does not describe an immutable, indefinable, unlimited source in existence. It describes evolution an indefinable/definable reality in levels in existence. The evolution of levels in existence is a proper metaphysical concern. Faith exploring Existence beyond the known

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, Essence cannot be a stand alone word and still be logical. If it stands alone how do I know what it means? What is the trigger that makes me consider essence? Reality? Speculation? Existence accepts the complete trigger for reality. Metaphysics reveals Essence. In MOQ

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-25 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and all, You use a word essence which is not logical. No logic or reality can follow essence. It is a stand alone word defining to be (esse) and being (ens) different parts of speech yes/no and the beat goes on!. In a DQ/SQ format for metaphysics you need a word which looks three ways

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-24 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Horse and All, There is a difference between a Man and a Woman. Pirsig suggested there is a difference between indefinable reality and definable reality. I would suggest that difference can be a metaphysical concept. Evolution defines existence in levels in reality, not just physical

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Andre and All, Definition is not existence. Metaphysics proposes the format for how we know things. Historically that format was S/O. In the evolutionary format for knowledge in SOM there is no reality to S's and 0's except through definition. Admittedly until DQ/SQ there was no rational

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Dave and all, I am unclear about the logic of this statement. I image DQ as the description of indefinable evolutionary reality perceived emotionally. Evolution is the description of levels in reality. Is there no variation to levels in the indefinable emotional perception of evolutionary

Re: [MD] Precious ?

2012-01-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ian and All, I was watching television last night and Diana Ross? Was singing in New York's Central Park after being rained out the night before. She was precious! Throughout the whole performance she was present. There was no doubt that DQ/SQ could describe her presence! As a singer in

Re: [MD] The first cut.

2012-01-19 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB, There is a logic in quoting words of RMP: Life can't exist on Dynamic Quality alone. It has no staying power. Although Dynamic Quality, the quality of freedom, creates the world in which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of order, preserve our world. Neither

Re: [MD] SOM Problem #6523213: Relativity and Truth

2012-01-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
love reading tho'. Books are beautiful. Peace, Mark On 1/17/12, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All, A lot that is wrong has been presented in books. Somehow the strong heart DQ has to help paint MOQ understanding revealing the pure beauty in evolution! Who wants

Re: [MD] SOM Problem #6523213: Relativity and Truth

2012-01-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, David and all, The difficulty with not defining DQ begs the question: What is evolution? In philosophical parlance there are no terms defining evolution. To make some sense of evolution I define Evolution as levels in existence. DQ then becomes the mark for discreet levels in

Re: [MD] SOM Problem #6523213: Relativity and Truth

2012-01-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, A lot that is wrong has been presented in books. Somehow the strong heart DQ has to help paint MOQ understanding revealing the pure beauty in evolution! Who wants to be involved only in discord? Thank You! Joe On 1/17/12 2:47 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: I am

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-13 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark Metaphysics is DQ/SQ evolution. I can experience an indefinable DQ emotional level and a definable SQ intellectual level. Can these levels evolve into higher DQ emotional and higher DQ intellectual levels beyond SQ mathematical logic? Are you suggesting that there are higher emotional

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka and all, For precision I appeal to the reality of emotions. Emotions are precise enough for perception, indefinable DQ, love. Metaphysics describes a higher discipline in logic, evolution, than the mathematics of physics, certainty. Metaphysics formats reality as levels in existence.

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka, Mathematics is a language of precise logic. Evolution disturbs mathematics. What do you mean levels in existence? Music is more freewheeling. Go with the flow, dig the jive! Joe On 1/11/12 2:50 PM, m...@tuukkavirtaperko.net m...@tuukkavirtaperko.net wrote: I like to contrast

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Ham and All, Your enthusiasm is catching! Your emphasis on the anthropocentric universe in which man is the decision=maker can only leave me humbled. How can I as an individual possibly have a connection to the stars? They are beautiful! For some reason I am in tears! I think it is your

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-11 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka and All, I am thinking of the musical scale: Do, RE, MI_FA, Sol, La, TI_Do. The intervals between notes are not all the same. The harmony of the spheres! I would hope that music is a trigger for experiencing reality. It certainly is far reaching in creating delight. I do not know

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
know it is not. However, it can be considered relative by those who need it to be, what a waste! On 1/9/12, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Tuukka; DQ/SQ Indefinable/definable. I want to play with words! Indefinable DQ is Pirsig's insight into the perception of evolving reality

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka; DQ/SQ Indefinable/definable. I want to play with words! Indefinable DQ is Pirsig's insight into the perception of evolving reality. Everything? No just indefinable reality. What is the common name for indefinable reality? I suggest emotions. My brother could always get my sisters

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka I am approaching my 80th birthday (lame-brained), and there is no doubt the way I express concepts is all over the place. The concept of Evolution, something indefinable in the sense of levels in existence, without appealing to creation, interests me. Evolution is not something from

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka and all, I do not know what you mean by conventional truth in a university setting? DQ/SQ as metaphysical reality accepts that that we experience and know the indefinable and the definable. If the uni accepts SOM only, indefinable DQ is not a teachable principle. I do not know how you

Re: [MD] relative

2012-01-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka and all, The theory of evolution describes a metaphysical truth. I am unsure how you perceive evolution! Aristotle described SOM (Subject/Object/Metaphysics) as the basis of knowledge, metaphysics. SOM's theory of knowledge follows the definition of a process of abstraction.

Re: [MD] emptiness

2012-01-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
, Mark On Jan 5, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All, MOQ, Metaphysics of Quality, embraces evolution! I conceptualize Pirsig's formula, DQ/SQ, as levels in existence. Existence embraces patterns as indefinable/definable reality DQ/SQ. Evolution

Re: [MD] emptiness

2012-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, MOQ, Metaphysics of Quality, embraces evolution! I conceptualize Pirsig's formula, DQ/SQ, as levels in existence. Existence embraces patterns as indefinable/definable reality DQ/SQ. Evolution is existential. IMHO Joe On 1/4/12 2:40 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [MD] Quality as the fundamental building block of reality

2012-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukka and all, Reality, quality! Man, Woman! Sun, Planet! Alive, Dead! Good, Bad! Definable, Indefinable! Yes, No! DQ, SQ! 0,1! Tall, Short! Infinite, Finite! Etc.! It looks like division is well and prosperous! On 1/5/12 1:55 AM, Tuukka Virtaperko m...@tuukkavirtaperko.net

Re: [MD] Quality as the fundamental building block of reality

2012-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tuukq and all, Evolution! On 1/5/12 1:25 PM, Tuukka Virtaperko m...@tuukkavirtaperko.net wrote: Joseph, are you claiming that stating everything to be Quality would mean something different than stating everything to be everything? -Tuukka 5.1.2012 23:22, Joseph Maurer

Re: [MD] Quality as the fundamental building block of reality

2012-01-05 Thread Joseph Maurer
: Joseph, I take it this is not biological evolution but evolution of everythingness. -Tuukka 5.1.2012 23:39, Joseph Maurer kirjoitti: Hi Tuukq and all, Evolution! On 1/5/12 1:25 PM, Tuukka Virtaperkom...@tuukkavirtaperko.net wrote: Joseph, are you claiming that stating

Re: [MD] emptiness

2012-01-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Imho DQ and SQ describe existence indefinable/definable. Static definable patterns exist, as well dynamic indefinable patterns. Made and created are modes in pattern manifestation. Evolution is an order in existence. Static patterns of value exist and we experience them.

Re: [MD] Dog Dishes and Direct Experience

2012-01-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt and All, In the formatting of reality as DQ/SQ there is a need to accept indefinable reality as a true description. Faith is indefinable! The indefinable is necessary to thinking! Who wants to define Faith? Joe On 1/3/12 9:02 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: [MD] Dog Dishes and Direct Experience

2012-01-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Physics and Metaphysics! Differentiated truth like conceptual evolution accepts the indefinable as true as the definable. Emotions are as true as thoughts! Metaphysics is necessary in conceptualizing the indefinable. If there is no view out through metaphysics reality remains

Re: [MD] Dog Dishes and Direct Experience

2012-01-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt nd All unboundedness when used in a discussion of Quality destroys order. Evolution which describes an order in existence is negated by unboundedness. (My spelling faculty on my word program puts a red line under unboundedness!). Instead of evolutionary reality I am forced to

Re: [MD] NYC

2012-01-01 Thread Joseph Maurer
Happy New Year MarshaV and all. On 1/1/12 1:23 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Happy New Year Joe, On Dec 31, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi MarshaV and All, SOM didn't know either, since S and O are both defined concepts! SOM has been metaphysically

Re: [MD] NYC

2011-12-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Marsha, It seems to me that metaphysics formats direct perception otherwise how could I experience the indefinable? Joe On 12/29/11 12:52 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Direct perception is to see things

Re: [MD] Dog Dishes and Direct Experience

2011-12-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt and All, When I read the sentence below, I immediately thought of conceptual reality and decided unboundedness of Quality/DQ eviscerates metaphysics and throws me into a faith mode. Evolution as the format of intelligibility is a boundary of order or knowledge if you prefer. Joe On

Re: [MD] NYC

2011-12-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, It seems to me that metaphysics formats direct perception otherwise how could I experience the indefinable? Joe On 12/29/11 12:52 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Direct perception is to see things as they are, without changing them through our concepts. Moq_Discuss mailing

Re: [MD] Nagasena King Milinda by Mark Siderits

2011-12-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
27, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Marsha, Metaphysics is empty sound, a trigger! Pirsig with DQ/SQ suggested that metaphysics is a format, not a sound. There has to be a trigger for concepts. It becomes even more weird when the trigger embraces indefinable

Re: [MD] Nagasena King Milinda by Mark Siderits

2011-12-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, Metaphysics is empty sound, a trigger! Pirsig with DQ/SQ suggested that metaphysics is a format, not a sound. There has to be a trigger for concepts. It becomes even more weird when the trigger embraces indefinable evolving reality and memory. No wonder metaphysics is a tough slog.

Re: [MD] Nagasena King Milinda by Mark Siderits

2011-12-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and all, Is there an indefinable principle in reality. No! Reality is an empty sound. Has anyone defined empty sound? Pirsig proposes DQ as a reality for empty sound. Is definition reality? No! Are metaphysics reality? No! Metaphysics are indefinable empty sounds. Joe On

Re: [MD] Idealistic static value patterns

2011-12-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt, I am getting very lost in a Big did Bang!. It is alliterative. I guess moving categories of adjectives to categories of nouns indicates that evolution eliminates the sacred! Tbis is why see evolution as levels in existence. Joe On 12/23/11 10:58 AM, Matt Kundert

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Tukka, I agree indefinable DQ is definable when you examine SQ reality. For example, evolution is an hierarchical order in existence. The levels in evolution can be defined as order. SOM embraces indefinable existence. To conceptualize differences SOM illogically describes levels in

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV, In mathematical parlance this is certainly true. Metaphysics, describing levels in evolution, creates boundaries, so to speak, in existence. One thing is not something else. It is difficult to conceptualize DQ as something since it is indefinable. There is a distinction in

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
modifying the structure? -Tuukka 22.12.2011 1:27, Joseph Maurer kirjoitti: Hi MarshaV, In mathematical parlance this is certainly true. Metaphysics, describing levels in evolution, creates boundaries, so to speak, in existence. One thing is not something else. It is difficult

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
to be definable. Undefinable things cannot be proven to exist or proven not to exist. -Tuukka 20.12.2011 23:35, Joseph Maurer kirjoitti: Hi Marsha and All, If something is indefinable is it non-existent? The word inherent clouds the formation of logic in existence. It tries to introduce

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-21 Thread Joseph Maurer
conceptual designation (patterns). Patterns have no independent, inherent existence. Further, these patterns represent what works depending upon on an individual's static pattern of life history. Marsha Sent from my iPad On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote

Re: [MD] emptiness

2011-12-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and All, If something is indefinable is it non-existent? The word inherent clouds the formation of logic in existence. It tries to introduce the hierarchy, evolution, before describing the metaphysics for the logic of evolution. Evolution seems to be used by Pirsig as a logical order

Re: [MD] Modern Psychology: Good, Bad, or Indifferent to MoQ

2011-12-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, MOQ suggests that DQ/SQ describes reality. DQ is indefinable. I accept metaphysics that the reality DQ is indefinable. When I try to piece together metaphysics I go back to what words are a trigger for each level? I accept that DQ is indefinable. When I compare DQ to stated

Re: [MD] Modern Psychology: Good, Bad, or Indifferent to MoQ

2011-12-16 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I dont understand what you are saying! I accept that consciousness embraces DQ. In MOQ DQ is indefinable not outside of consciousness. That indicates to me that some levels in evolution are indefinable. If I wish to discuss the indefinable I have to accept the order in reality,

Re: [MD] Realism and anti-realism

2011-12-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, What is the reality of metaphysical Logic? I suggest that levels in existence (evolution) is the determinant for logical reality. The new vocabulary proposes levels in existence, reality, evolution. Can we accept more than one thing at a time? In the acceptance of evolution

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-12-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi David and All, Using independent as a metaphysical claim begins to cloud an evolutionary hierarchy necessary for logic. Indefinable Individual seems a better claim when discussing evolution. Joe On 12/9/11 12:32 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: To say that objects are

Re: [MD] Realism and anti-realism

2011-12-08 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt and all, A question comes to my mind when I read your statement below about loss of nerve. Is logic created? Evolution describes reality as an order in existence. Where's the logic? I have a very difficult time wrestling with your statements. I don't understand you. What I seem to

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-12-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, In describing disciplines of thought, I find mathematical logic too restrictive for metaphysical reality. When proposing an evolutionary logic, the certainty for everything seems to get lost. What form can describe evolution so that necessary distinctions are acceptable? I

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-12-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha and Mark, I do not know how you envision evolution, language? Pirsig changes the status of Quality from a adjective, relative existence, in SOM to a noun, DQ indefinable existence, in MOQ. What is the logic supporting this change? It can only be some change in a reality of existence

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-11-30 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, Physics, what we define as what we know! Metaphysics an indefinable order in existence, evolution! Pirsig saw the need for a reality of experience of an indefinable metaphysical DQ as necessary for an scientific SQ order for logic. He proposed a Metaphysics of Quality DQ/SQ. How?

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-11-29 Thread Joseph Maurer
, then they find another place to live. Some are perfectly happy where they are, others philosophize. Evolution identifies logic, IMO. Sent laboriously from an iPhone, Mark On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Steve and All. As I read your statement

Re: [MD] Rorty and Relativism

2011-11-28 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Steve and All, Given the online MOQ, it seems to be evident that DQ/SQ has touched a nerve. How can the indefinable have a place in metaphysics? I guess some see it as no big deal since everything is indefinable until you define it. Even in that scenario (until you define it) DQ remains

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-11-27 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Steve and All. As I read your statement below the question What is logic? presents itself. In an evolutionary format logic is from a higher to a lower reality or vise versa. Higher or Lower than becomes a judgment call. Unless we establish an the order for evolution Says you! is the final

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-11-26 Thread Joseph Maurer
. But a bit of better butter Makes better batter. So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter, Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better. Arghh! I've got callouses on my lips! Cheers, Mark On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and All

Re: [MD] The Relativist's journey

2011-11-23 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, Communication follows definition. Definition follows evolution. Individuality follows definition. Comparing things highlights communication of individuality. Given an evolutionary schema of 7 levels like a musical scale, or color spectrum, comparison can be a pleasing

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt, Off the top of his head Pirsig acknowledges 4 levels in evolution Inorganic, Organic, Social, Intellectual. A couple of questions: What is evolution? For myself I answer an order in existence. What about 'emotions'? Not everyone feels the same. There is a category called heroes. I

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-22 Thread Joseph Maurer
. This way we do not have to fathom something that is hidden. It may make life more rewarding. Yes, I think we are saying exactly the same thing. Thank you Brother! Mark On Nov 20, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mark and all, I will jump into a quagmire

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, I will jump into a quagmire of thought What is evolution? What does it represent? Imho metaphysics is a discipline describing the schema of evolution, and describing a vocabulary for evolution. Is definition a way to explore evolution? No! I can only describe the concept

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-20 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt, The evidence for multiple levels in evolution found in New York city describe a more complex foundation for a reality in evolution beyond dog dishes. Joe On 11/19/11 4:05 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why increased complexity denotes more

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, I have no idea how you see metaphysics making everything undefined. PHYSICS, which drops the META also means something, and I don't know how you see words as meaningless. PHYSICS using the language of mathematics describes many changes. Change is meaningless! It is going to be

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, How old do I have to be to be unable to be teachable? I assume Purify your own minds opens a door to a value in dialogue DQ/SQ since a self taught person is taught by a fool! Joe On 11/18/11 4:12 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Š After he responded to such questions, however,

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-18 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Marsha, I don't expect there is an age beyond dialogue. Dogma is beyond dialogue. Joe On 11/18/11 11:16 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Joe, I don't know how old. How old do you think? Marsha On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi Marsha, How old do

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt, I do not know what is your take on evolution? Is evolution a metaphysical reality? If so then there is more evidence for evolution from New York than from dog dishes. That is if a logical description of evolution is more complicated than the appearance of dog dishes! Joe On

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-17 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I assume OA means outside of anything. That is a metaphysical discussion since mathematics is not OA but ID inside the defined. The metaphysics of evolution is OD outside the defined since it is a description of LE levels in existence. Joe On 11/17/11 11:26 AM, 118

Re: [MD] Taking off the glasses?

2011-11-14 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Steve and All, DQ/SQ metaphysics! Can language describe evolution and metaphysics? Do you want language only to follow mathematical logic? Is there a metaphysical language in logic? Pirsig suggested the indefinable is a level in reality. The indefinable is not found in the SQ concepts of

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-12 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I accept the discipline of metaphysics cannot be understood in the language of physics mathematics. I see the color purple and it is different from the color blue. Vibrations matter to perception. Vibrations in what? Light has a spectrum. Sound has an octave. Touch distinguishes

Re: [MD] It's a trap

2011-11-11 Thread Joseph Maurer
On Nov 10, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote: Hi MarshaV and all, As I read your words I feel Sad and Happy! Emotions are certainly indefinable. Emotions are certainly indivisible. Emotions are certainly unknowable in an intellectual framework. However indefinable emotions

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-11 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, I do not accept that the logic of SOM allows me to discuss reality. There is no security in a reality described as existing in a real object if it is seen as intentional existence as ideas in a mind as described in SOM. The SOM logic needed to verify the reality of SO proposes the need

Re: [MD] It's a trap

2011-11-10 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi MarshaV and all, As I read your words I feel Sad and Happy! Emotions are certainly indefinable. Emotions are certainly indivisible. Emotions are certainly unknowable in an intellectual framework. However indefinable emotions fill a DQ notch, so to speak, in my experience which I call

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and all, Imho metaphysics provides answers to some questions that physics (mathematics) cannot explore. For example the range of logical problems about the definitions of Quality and Evolution belongs in metaphysics. Physics, the language of mathematics, cannot describe evolution as

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-07 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, The question of logic comes to the fore. DQ/SQ is a metaphysical description for reality. Why? I do not know if you are using prove in the sense of a dialectic. Is logic defined in emotion? It has something to do with communication. If words are a symbol that stand for something,

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-06 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark and All, The Intellectual and the logical is ultimately based on faith. I guess Metaphysics is faith based? Am I sentient (free will) and not just logically determined if I ignore logic? Different functions! You are confusing. I accept the individuality I possess from my Mom and Dad.

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt and all, What embodies the conception of indefinable DQ? Out there in the world apart from us requires the metaphysical reality to verify a difference between individuality and imagination for everyone. Pirsig observed that indefinable DQ is necessary in limiting metaphysical reality

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-11-04 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Mark, Inclusive is a word I associate with emotional overtones. Am I included in the invitations? I do not know what you mean by more inclusive? There is a quantitative reality and a qualitative reality. In mathematical logic 2 is more than 1 a quantitative difference. In evolutionary

Re: [MD] Selective interest

2011-11-03 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi DMB and All, Emotions are DQ. When I take my glasses off I assume DQ/SQ fades away. I can still experience DQ emotions without glasses, primal experience. Gesture and body-language embody emotional, indefinable DQ content. Joe On 11/1/11 7:32 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com

Re: [MD] The Hero's journey

2011-10-31 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Matt and All, A rock is different from a thought. Some attention to difference is necessary. For myself I prefer to explore difference in evolution. I accept that individuality is indefinable. Individual what? Joe On 10/29/11 3:13 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote:

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