[MD] Platt's Individual Level

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Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Platt
> 
> This makes me wonder,  to what extent is
> quality a form of language prior to human langauge?
> A form that is less value neutral than some aspects
> of human language?


Could you rephrase your question because I don't understand it. Can you give 
and example of a form of language prior to human language? Do you have in 
mind animal utterances?

Thanks, 
Platt 

> > 
> > First, I agree with your second paragraph about reason. Second, 
> > spiritual to me means what the mystics say about reality, i.e., it's  
> > beyond words. Pirsig put it this way: "They (mystics) share a common 
> > belief that the fundamental nature of reality is outside language; that 
> > language splits things up into parts while the true nature of reality 
> > is undivided." Another way to say the same thing is that "the only 
> > valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained." So I 
> > can't weight it, describe it or think about it in any way. Like 
> > experience itself, spirit is just there, a value that is "immediate, 
> > intuitive, undeliberate and involuntary, leaving no room for conscious 
> > application of standards, criteria, rules or precepts." 
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Platt


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