[MD] Essentials for target practice

[John Carl]

well, Ham, if your continued participation hangs in the balance, the
pressure is ON.

I doubt if my responses to your tenets will be helpful, but it might be fun
anyway.


FUNDAMENTAL TENETS OF ESSENTIALISM:
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> 1)  Nothing comes from nothingness.
>


Demonstrably, there's no such thing as nothing.


2)  Nothing creates itself (i.e., brings itself into existence)..


See above.



> 3)  Existence is the appearance of differentiated otherness.
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>

What about the aspects of existence that have no recognizable appearance?
If you say that without appearance there is no existence, I'm gonna send you
back to the empiricism from whence you came.



> 4)  All appearance--including divisions, relations, and movement--is the
> affect of an uncreated source.
>


Appearance is subjective.




> 5)  The primary difference is the provisional separation of proprietary
> sensibility from the
>    undivided source.
>
>

Provisional upon what?  More subjectivism.



> 6)  Life is an individual experience the essence of which is
> value-sensibility.
>
>
Life is certainly bigger than any individual's experience.  This is a major
"duh".



> 7)  Cognizant awareness, feeling, knowledge, interpretation, intellection,
> and realization are proprietary to the individual.
>
>
Disagree completely.  All those things are relative and arise only in
intersubjective comparison.




> 8)  Experience is the objective representation of value realized.
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>
See above.


> 9)  Unrealized value does not exist.
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>
Hey!  I think I agree with this one.



> 10)  Man is a "free agent" in that he has the innate capacity to act in
> accordance with his                 proprietary value orientation.
>
>
And this one.  We're on a roll now.  Except for that troublesome part about
value being proprietary.



> 11)  All truth is relative.  Access to "absolute truth" is inimical to
> individual freedom.
>
>
Truth is an idealized absolute.  An individual's apprehension of truth is
relative.



> 12)  Wisdom is not factual knowledge but the ability to realize the value
> of experience.
>
>

Ok, I'll go along with that one, just to end on a happy and logically
positive note.


Ya logical positivist you.

Thanks for responding.
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> --Ham
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>
Thanks for eliciting.

John