Re: MD The MOQ implies that there is more to reality than DQ & SQ

From: David M (davidint@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 20:42:08 BST

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    > Scott:
    > I think you are misconstruing the pre-materialist philosophical meaning of
    > 'potential'. My imaginings are actual, not potential. Again, this looks to
    > me like you have been nominalistically indoctrinated to see the word
    > 'actual' as meaning 'physical'.

    > Scott:
    > I would say it is not useful, since it is confusing the potential with the
    > non-physical. I am using the word potential to refer to all the laws,
    > instincts, thoughts, ideas, and so forth, that are not present in the
    > moment. What is present is the actual. The actual manifests the potential,
    > and has meaning only because there is a potential that it manifests, but
    > doesn't completely express the potential. Thus, if one is tempted to align
    > potential/actual with DQ and SQ, there are reasons for doing it either
    > way,
    > which is to say neither way works very well. But the original question is
    > whether there is non-experienced reality, and I am saying that
    > potentiality
    > is not experienced. Only actualizations are experienced, some mentally,
    > some
    > physically.

    DM: Here is what I am saying. I stand at the crossroads.I can go left or
    right.
    I have the potential to go left or right. I can imagine that I can go left
    or right,
    therefore I have 2 potential actions, I know it, I imagine it, I have a
    choice. I go left
    and realise this actual and imagined potential to go left. The option of
    going right is negated and not realised. The option of going right existed
    for me as a potential,
    was real and influenced waht happened in this way, and yet is not something
    I experience
    perceptually as a realised action only as actual imaginary one. There is
    surely a difference
    between walking down a road and imagining that you have the potential to do
    so.
    I have no idea why you are arguing with me or what you are talking about.

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