[MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life?

[David M]

yes Marsha

SPOVs are good at this, is it a human being,
a mate, a nurse, an animal, a rival, a threat, a messenger,
a saviour, a traitor, a guide, an inconvenience, a sister,
a mother, etc, that stands before me?

DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MarshaV" <marshalz at charter.net>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life?


> At 10:48 PM 5/29/2007, Ian wrote:
>>Marsha, Platt,
>>
>>That quote from Wilber is a favourite of mine. Part of my armoury
>>against ignoring "excluded middles". It is so natural to divide things
>>into two - every analytical cut creates two "opposites" from one
>>whole, and it's so easily to forget and take this cut for granted.
>>Making distinctions is indeed essential, but the implied opposites are
>>entirely incidental.
>>
>>In fact every cut is just a thin dividing line drawn across a
>>continuum, and the two halves need not be more than a hair's-breadth
>>apart, even though theire extremes may be poles apart. (The northern
>>and southern hemispheres seem distinct opposites, but half a degree
>>north is every bit as equatorial as half a degree south.)
>>
>>Ian
> 
> Ian,
> 
> I'm trying to think about the process the individual (SPoVs) makes to 
> focus on this rather than that.  It's very funny, you know, very 
> funny indeed.
> 
> Marsha
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