[MD] The Greeks?

[Joseph Maurer]

On 6/8/10 12:13 AM, "Mary" <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe,



Of all the people who post here I struggle more with yours than
> anyone
else's.  I have grown to admire and respect your posts very much
> while
simultaneously failing to understand them.  Did you already know that?
> Are
you for real or putting me on?  I ask for one person to answer one
> question.
You oblige and the number one looms large in your reply.  I'm
> captured and
keep reading, but the farther in the less I understand.  Your
> sentences have
an ambiguous quality.  A glimpse of the familiar in a sea of
> something else.
Your meaning is out of reach unless it isn't.  To grasp at one
> familiar
floating plank is to lose the rescue ship passing by, and I still
> don't know
which is the mistake.  That is why I distrust my own understanding.
> You
have fooled me before so why should believe I understand you now?  Should
> I
think you meant the first way I understood you or the second, the third,
> or
the way I haven't thought of yet?

I start to play games with these
> sentences.  As you read them to yourself,
you can completely change the
> meaning depending on where you pause and where
you put emphasis.  It can be
> hilarious, but it's not you I'm laughing at,
it's me.  



Very best,
Mary


Hi Mary and all,
 
When your name first popped up on my computer I felt an interest in
answering you about the topic you were discussing.  I have no idea what that
interest was, but it has not slackened.  Doo-bi, doo-bi,ŠŠŠ.doo.
 
I realize our plumbing is different, yet I feel an affinity for the way you
approach a topic.  For me the topic of  ³one² is a great stretch.  In a DQ
undefined/SQ defined division of reality which 1 is reality? Mathematics
says SQ is true, 1 is definable.   Evolution says DQ is true, 1 is
indefinable.  Both right!

Evolution is DQ and mathematics is SQ, perception and conception!  And
sometimes damned if I can tell them apart except by Pirsig¹s insight into
DQ/SQ.  The 1 of evolution is different from the 1 of static reality as
indefinable reality is different from definable reality.  Confusion reigns
until I realize that the 1 of evolution DQ is different from the 1 of logic
DQ/SQ.  Metaphysics and computation do not mix as individuation is not 1
imho. Mathematics is not metaphysics!
 
And I am sorry for being so confused!
 
Joe