[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[ian glendinning]

Platt, Arlo, Mark, Case, Matt,

Platt questioned Arlo
> So Quality is just a figure of speech?

Not sure the word "just" helps Platt, but that aside, yes.
See my reply to Case about how it mattered little whether assertions
concerning quality (making things happen) were literal or
metaphorical.

Mark questioned Matt's idealism, when Matt had said
"*ALL* is metaphor; analogue upon analogue, etc"
(paraphrasing out of context - sorry)
My summary of Lakoff and Johnson said that whilst many metaphors are
"dead" and we feel the words are symbols of some tangible reality when
we use them, most if not all are ultimately metaphorical, which is not
surprising if one accepts ineffable quality as that ultimate basis.

But there is no "just" about it. It is the case.
Ian