[MD] Essentials for target practice

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham}
> FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF ESSENTIALISM:
> 1) Nothing comes from nothingness.
> 2) Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence)
> 3) Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness.
> 4) All appearance--including divisions, relations, and movement--is the 
> affect of an uncreated source.
> 5) The primary difference is the provisional separation of proprietary 
> sensibility from the undivided source.
> 6) Life is an individual experience the essence of which is 
> value-sensibility.
> 7) Cognizant awareness, feeling, knowledge, interpretation, intellection, 
> and realization are proprietary to the individual.
> 8) Experience is the objective representation of value realized.
> 9) Unrealized value does not exist.
> 10) Man is a "free agent" in that he has the innate capacity to act in 
> accordance with his proprietary value orientation.
> 11) All truth is relative. Access to "absolute truth" is inimical to 
> individual freedom.
> 12) Wisdom is not factual knowledge but the ability to realize the value of 
> experience.
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1) & 3) make no sense to me.
2) is an unknowable generalization. For any particular, one of 3 cases hold:
i) we find its source; ii) we can't find a source & it doesn't have one;
iii) we can't find a source but it has one. We can't determine which of the
latter two is the case.

I see no reason to believe 4), 5) or 11).
8) is vague, as is "innate capacity" in 10).
It's not clear that factual knowledge is not also "the ability to realize
the value of experience" in 12).




Craig