[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[John Carl]

Ian,

To my reading, Mary's points about SOM were explicitly stated as related to
the intellectual level, in fact, since she posits those two points as
comprising the "entire basis" of the intellectual level, it's hard to see
how they could be "not about the intellectual level".

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com
> wrote:

Excellent Platt, EXCEPT,
>
> Mary's two points were about SOM, (explicitly stated "SOM says .."),
> not about the intellectual level.
>
>
Mary said:



>
> >>
> >> 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;




 The level of intentional dishonesty in the argumentation is embarrassing.
> Ian




John:

I hope this is a simple mistake on your part, Ian, and not "intentional
dishonesty".

:)


And as far as Mary's point goes, if that's all there is to the 4th level, I
don't see why it's less moral for a social pattern to overthrow and dominate
the whole level, since by the definition provided, the entire level is
immoral.


John