Marco asked Jonathan:
>So, I ask you how do you replace purpose from the
> sentence:
>
> "It is my purpose to go home"
>
> and accident from the sentence:
>
> "By accident I met an old friend"
I wanted to take a crack at this because for me this
problem of causality thing is the part of the MOQ that
I understand the least. Please point out mistakes.
Maybe "I value going home" or "I value going home more
than anything else right now" for the first one and
for the second one how about "A meeting between an old
friend and I was the most valuable outcome of the
given circumstances." I realize these sound pretty
unpractical but that is what I thought MOQ
translations would be.
Thanks,
Adam
--- Marco <marble@inwind.it> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> > My understanding of the MoQ is that both
> "accident" and "purpose" are
> > platypus words.
>
> I have the impression that there is the risk it
> becomes too easy to
> configure as "platypus" every thing we can't agree
> upon. When Pirsig
> destroys the Platypus "causation" for example, he
> replaces "A causes B"
> with "B values precondition A" . The same goes for
> "matter" replaced by
> "inorganic pattern of value" and so on.
>
> So, I ask you how do you replace purpose from the
> sentence:
>
> "It is my purpose to go home"
>
> and accident from the sentence:
>
> "By accident I met an old friend"
>
> bye
> Marco
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan B. Marder"
> <jonathan.marder@newmail.net>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:39 PM
> Subject: MD Accidentally on purpose
>
>
> > Hi Platt, Marco and all,
> >
> > PLATT to MARCO:
> > Your position seems to be "It gets better
> accidentally on purpose."
> > Where have I gone wrong?
> >
> > Platt, I think you have hit the nail on the head.
> That is one of the
> > best one-liners I have seen in months, and I say
> this in all
> > seriousness.
> >
> > My understanding of the MoQ is that both
> "accident" and "purpose" are
> > platypus words. The reason avid determinists argue
> with
> > anti-determinists is that the former don't accept
> that anything is an
> > accident, while anti-determinists deny causative
> purpose.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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