[MD] E/O

[MarshaV]

At 02:33 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>
>Considering the question:
>
>"Does Lila have Quality?"
>
> >From an ontological point of view people and things have properties. They
>have a nature that exists outside the mind, so Lila has Quality or she
>doesn't. From an epistemic point of view people and things have a nature
>that exists inside the mind. As people of the 21st century Western culture,
>we think, ane so again, Lila has Quality or she doesn't.
>
>The MOQ tells us Quality has Lila. "Nothing dominates Quality." The MOQ
>offers a more expanded point of view, one that looks at ontological and
>epistemic points of view and states that they are both right... in a limited
>context. Ontologically, inorganic and biological patterns of value have a
>nature that exists physically. Epistemically, social and intellectual
>patterns of value have a nature that exists mentally.
>
>Or so I think...
>
>Any thoughts, anyone?

Hi Dan,

Are the patterns of value that exists mentally, in both the social 
and intellectual levels, 'knowing' and belonging to epistemology?

Believe it or not, I was trying to discover why the answers that you 
and Arlo gave in a different thread were so different, but both 
seemed so right.  I thought maybe it was epistemology versus 
ontology.  But maybe it was just my inadequate question to begin 
with.  Thanks for responding.

  Marsha