At 2:35 PM +0200 9/28/98, Magnus Berg wrote:
>Hi Jonathan and Squad
>
>You wrote:
>>
>> Magnus, Donny already stated his position on this a month ago:-
>
>Yes but doesn't this put the MoQ very close to idealism?
>It seems to me that the metaphysics behind this position would be
>something like. "Reality consists of maps and non-maps, but the
>maps are the only things we can experience first hand. Non-maps
>are blurred through the maps and aren't reliable".
Perhaps the MoQ is in some ways close to idealism, but I think your
metaphysical description is mistaken. The MoQ asserts that the ultimate
reality, Quality, can be *directly* experienced. However, that experience
is a mystical (nonverbal) one. Any utterances about those mystical
experiences are merely intellectual maps drawn after the fact. It is
reality (quality) that we experience first hand. The maps are drawn up
after we've been exploring the world to help us navigate it without having
to relearn everything each time. The reality is crystal clear and available
whenever you open your eyes and the map may or may not be clear (we hope
MoQ is clearer than SOM, e.g.), but the correspondence between the map and
the reality is never perfect.
TTYL,
Keith
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