[MD] Science and the MOQ

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> Are you saying all statements are analogies? If so, how? 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Read ZMM and LILA.

In Lila I find analogies to a cup of tea, map coordinates, high country and 
computer hardware/software. How does this explain that all statements are 
analogies?

> [Platt]
> So a new assumption changes the form of knowledge which then becomes true
> knowledge? Right?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Why the word "true"? Why not "accepted"?

Accepted? By whom? Surely truth isn't a matter of poll results.

> Yes, if all our knowledge is based
> on assumptions, then a change in our assumptions will alter the forms of our
> knowledge. 
> 
> "Knowledge" is saying the same thing as "intellectual patterns". "Every
> intellectual pattern rests on assumptions".
> 
> "Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived".
> (LILA)

Is that statement culturally derived?  Are not assumptions also 
intellectual patterns? Are there not high and low quality intellectual 
patterns as well as assumptions? 

> "Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians
> don't know that. That's why the Chairman missed that statement of Socrates.
> Phædrus has caught it and remembered it, because if Socrates hadn't stated
> it he wouldn't have been telling the "Truth."" (ZMM)

Doesn't explain how "everything is an analogy."