From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2005 - 21:25:36 GMT
Hi Erin
Matt previously said:
If static patterns are mediated reality
And Dynamic Quality is unmediated reality
Paul replied:
I don't think mediated/unmediated is a good distinction. It suggests
that a third metaphysical entity is in there doing the mediating rather
than a process, i.e., static latching. My preferred distinction is
undifferentiated/differentiated which I think is also more descriptive
and meaningful to what the MOQ is talking about. This may prevent
problems later.
Erin said:
I am not fully clear at why undifferentiated/differentiated doesn't
suggest a third metaphysical entity doing the differentiating just
because it is a process--- static latching is kind of suggesting static
latches are doing the latching. So wouldn't the static latches be a
mediating process. Could clairy the distinction between these two terms
more.
Paul:
I suppose you could call static latching a 'mediating process'. I don't
know. I guess I think of mediating as being an agent between two things
e.g. a subject and an object, rather than as a description of something
emerging from (or in the wake of) something else which is what is being
described as static latching. I can't quite put my finger on what I
don't like about 'unmediated' but when I do, I'll let you and Matt know.
Regards
Paul
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