[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Platt Holden]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Mary <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The Intellectual Level is the set of Patterns of Value that hold with two
> key points.
>
> - SOM says Quality with a capital "Q" does not exist because quality is
> nothing more than an attribute based on subjective opinion.
> - SOM says that the Universe is composed of nothing more nor less than a
> collection of subjects and objects.
>
> This is about as minimal a definition of SOM as I can get down to.  If you
> take these two key assumptions as the entire basis of the Intellectual
> Level
> I believe all else follows logically; and despite the argument that this is
> too narrow or restrictive, I think you will find that everything short of
> the MoQ and equivalents that cannot otherwise be considered a Social Level
> value will apply.  For example, things like science, atheism, democracy,
> empiricism, economic theories and surely a bunch of other things I can't
> think of right now all follow as a logical result of these two premises
> alone.  What can be misleading is that many of the concepts derived from
> these two basic Intellectual Patterns appear to be in irreconcilable
> conflict with each other.  That is surely true, but the conflict is only in
> the details and not in the fundamental, unspoken assumptions upon which
> they
> are based.  It is these two unspoken assumptions that are pervasive and
> insidiously present in everything in the purview of the Intellectual Level.
>
>
> [Platt]
You have identified the keys to understanding the intellectual level -- the
two unspoken
assumptions that determine its basic nature. Thanks for pinning it down so
correctly
and succinctly.

Best,
Platt