[MD] dualism redux

[ian glendinning]

Hi Kevin, I think I now understand the point you were making ...

Quality is the mono-"thing" whereas the MoQ is an intellectual pattern
(like any metaphysics) based on that mono-thing. I think those of us
using langage like "MoQ is a monism", are just using common shorthand
for "MoQ is a metaphysics based on a mono-thing."

(I think it's just linguistics - but we have already the idea that
it's the intellectual pattern that includes its own definition - the
whole in the part)

I think you're shifting the (inevitable *) linguistic problem around
without necessarily taking things forward. Feel free to show me wrong
if you can build something new from this point.

* of course it's not entirely inevitable, if like Doug (Renselle) you
invent your own language, to avoid such problems, but conversation
becomes limited, even within a small closed community like this one,
and a complete dead loss in the wider world.

Some famous dead geezer said something about private languages ;-)

Ian

On 2/28/07, Kevin Perez <kjp_on_moq at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Ian,
>
> > Clearly the MoQ "supports" a S/O view of the world, a dualist view,
> > but the whole point is that as a metaphysics it is based on a view
> > that says Quality preceeds all subjects and objects.
>
> Yes.
>
> > So [the MoQ] is itself a Monism.
>
> No.  Quality is the monism.
>
>