From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 04:36:45 GMT
Platt,
[Scott prev]> > This is to say that we are now in a stage
> > intermediate between that stage and that of "final participation",
wherein
> > (I'm sort of guessing) we can recover that expressivity with full
> > intellect.
>
[Platt]> Perhaps the MoQ has recovered that "expressivity." Quality can be
> considered "spirit like" and all patterns in the MoQ levels are in some
> sense "aware" i.e., "alive."
I agree, though it takes self-transformation to actually recover it.
[Platt]> Seems you are saying, "I invite you to think it is true that . . ."
thus
> invoking a universal, foundational acceptance of truth as a guiding
> concept.
But what kind of truth? My point is that metaphysical statements do not
employ truth by correspondence in the way that statements about perceived
reality can. If you say "the cat is sitting on the mat" I can verify it (or
not) by looking at the cat. There is no way, though, to verify that
"everything is Quality" short of self-transformation.
In any case, "vocabulary" is invoked so frequently by followers
> of Rorty (among others) that it begins to take on the status of an
> absolute all by itself. :-).
That's what I am saying we should do: think of everything as a word in some
language game, words whose (ultimate) meaning is Quality. That Quality is
not read in everything is the mark of our non-participatory state (which
elsewhere I called insanity).
- Scott
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