[MD] Where does logic itself belong inside the MOQ?

[Steven Peterson]

Hi All,

Logic is a set of intellectual patterns. It includes much of the
criteria we have invented to judge the quality of other intellectual
patterns and the guidelines for creating new high quality intellectual
patterns. It is best to think of logic as descriptive rather than
prescriptive in its origin so as not to make the mistake of thinking
that logic predates the inorganic patterns that it does such a good
job of describing.

Best,
Steve


Some LC annotations that relate to distinguishing the types of
patterns and SOLAQI:

43. This seems too restrictive. It seems to exclude non-subject-object
constructions such
as symbolic logic, higher mathematics, and computer languages from the
intellectual
level and give them no home. Also the term “quality” as used in the MOQ would be
excluded from the intellectual level. In fact, the MOQ, which gives
intellectual meaning
to the term quality, would also have to be excluded from the intellectual level.
If we just say the intellect is the manipulation of language-derived symbols for
experience these problems of excessive exclusion do not seem to occur.


45. After the beginning of history inorganic, biological, social and
intellectual patterns
are found existing together in the same person. I think the conflicts
mentioned here are
intellectual conflicts in which one side clings to an intellectual
justification of existing
social patterns and the other side intellectually opposes the existing
social patterns. A
social pattern which would be unaware of the next higher level would
be found among
prehistoric people and the higher primates when they exhibit social
learning that is not
genetically hard-wired but yet is not symbolic.


88.	I don’t remember not responding, so it must have been an
oversight. I don’t think the subject-object level is identical with
intellect. Intellect is simply thinking, and one can think without
involving the subject-object relationship. Computer language is not
primarily structured into subjects and objects. Algebra has no
subjects and objects.