TTTTYPOS - insufficently prescriptive spelling! TTTTTTT!!!!
> ELEPHANT TO ED EADS RE PRESCRIPRIVE/DESCRIPRIVE:
>
> IMO, the whole point of emphasising the essential reality of value in the
> world is that and description, just as a full description, is necessarily
> going to be prescriptive. In sum, you can only suppose that MOQ can be the
> one without being the otther if you don't understand MOQ. People talk about
> a fact-value gap, and about an is not implying an ought. These ways of
> speaking are what underlies the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, and
> MOQ rejects both of them.
>
> That said, this would be one good way of testing whether or not any of the
> supposedly MOQ descriptions doing the rounds really are MOQ descriptions:
> you detect a lack of prescrition, and if you are right, then the stuff you
> are talking about doesn't really have any place in MOQ.
>
> So your request for a bit more prescription in MOQ Discuss is, IMO, a very
> useful one that we ought to think about and act on.
>
> Pzeph.
>
>
>
>> From: "Ed Eads & Chris Kramer" <edeads@prodigy.net>
>> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:11:04 -0500
>> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>> Subject: MD Re: MOQ as Prescriptive Philosophy
>>
>> Danila:
>> Most of the discussion here recently is about MOQ as a DESCRIPTIVE system.
>> I would really like to have a discussion about the usefulness of MOQ for
>> giving PRESCRIPTIVE guidelines, by applying it to real-life situations.
>> Especially I am interested in what it has to say about the environmental
>> questions where an expanding human population 'needs' to damage or destroy
>> an ecosystem to survive. How can ordinary citizens create a consistent
>> INTELLECTUAL pattern using the MOQ that would be acceptable to everyone in
>> society and preserve the environment?
>>
>>
>> I applaud the intent here and think the MOQ provides a means of obtaining
>> quality solutions. As an example, I'm working on a mathematical model of a
>> deer population that has become too large and is now causing problems in an
>> adjacent town (hunting is not allowed in the area). The deer had been
>> raiding gardens and more and more are getting hit by cars. With the model
>> one can determine a minimum number of deer that can be removed or sterilized
>> periodically in order to obtain and maintain a stable future population at
>> an ideal level. As I see it, the model is at the "idea" level and is being
>> applied to the "social" level of deer to enable greater harmony in the deer
>> population, as well as greater harmony for the people in the town. I expect
>> similar applications abound.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
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