[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

[MarshaV]

Ooops, got my initials mixed up.


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From: "MarshaV" <marshalz at charter.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Reet and the Weakest Link


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> From: "david buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
> To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Reet and the Weakest Link
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>> dmb said:
>> I don't get it. How is a logical contradiction only apparent or illusory 
>> and how does it exist in perception. Leaving aside Ham's essentialism, I 
>> really don't understand what the tetralemma means. I'm not even sure 
>> where the logic is located in it. Break it down for me, will you?
>>
>> Ron replied:
>> OR -experience does not arise from logic, logic arises from experience.
>>
>> dmb says:
>> Right. I agree with this conclusion but I understand it in terms of John 
>> Dewey's philosophy and in terms of the MOQ. What I don't understand is 
>> how we get from the tetralemma to that conclusion. It looks something 
>> like a five-part dilemma where each premise is related to the others, but 
>> I don't see how they add up.
>>
>> Also, it feels like being dropped into the middle of a conversation, like 
>> it is a response to Aristotle's logic. But I don't see how the form of 
>> this argument works. I don't see how the logic works, how one progresses 
>> through the five steps. Without some kind of context or explanation, each 
>> premise looks like naked assertion.
>>
>> Can you walk me through it? How do you get to the conclusion from there?
>>
>> Marsha, would you care to take a stab at explaining it?
>>
>> Thanks.
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> DMB,
>
> If only I could explain in a coherent (Hi Squonk!) manner.  It has 
> something to do with non-affirming negatives, but I don't have it clearly. 
> Maybe Ron can explain.  If he does, I'd like to know why he so rejected by 
> question about opposite-from-non-beer.  All of a sudden he's a tetralemma 
> whiz-kid. That's okay.  I'll take help from whoever can offer it.  I am so 
> beyond my knowledge base it's frightening.  Movement, even at a snail's 
> pace, is okay with me.
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> Marsha
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