[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[ian glendinning]

Steve, I wasn't picking on anyone, just responding to the one point
you made to Arlo - agreeing, re-inforcing, extending, being
constructive  .... as opposed to sarcastic ;-)

Great pen-name Steve Peterson - sounds almost real.
Ian

On 5/30/06, Steve Peterson <vincentedisonluther at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> > In the same way as you've taken the MoQ redefinition
> > of truth as "that
> > which is good", you need to take "belief" on to
> > "that which is
> > understood to be good" or "better than
> > alternatives".
>
> So you are saying I should have said, "truth is that
> which is good by way of that which is understood to be
> good."  Right. That is much better. Thanks so much.
>
> Now, Ian, I never get sarcastic, but you are just
> picking on me for something that I didn't say and has
> nothing to do with the topic at hand. If you want to
> argue about absolutes, Platt is the one you should be
> talking to.
>
> > Intellectual patterns are no different from social
> > in that respect.
> > Some are better than others. Treating intellectual
> > patterns as having
> > some logically absolute truth / falsity value would
> > be making no
> > progress. (Intellect is more than logic too.)
>
> Then it's a good thing I never treat intellectual
> patterns as having some logically absolute
> truth/falsity (whatever that means) or think of
> intellect as just logic.
>
> If you are going to make up stuff that I say, can post
> it on psybertron next time? Some one might read it on
> MD.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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