[MD] What is SOM?

[Platt Holden]

The intellectual level points to the moon.
The MOQ embraces the moon.

Platt

> You can't get away that lightly Bo,
> 
> If you really are agreeing with that ... as I thought we had in the
> past anyway ... then our only disagreement is how this is actually
> expressed in the MoQ levels and patterns.
> 
> The MoQ intellectual level MUST be more than SOMism .... SOMism will
> just find itself to be (or to have been)  a "static pattern" as MoQ
> intellect (and language) continues to evolve.
> 
> The historical dividing line between social and intellectual may well
> be the original evolution of SOMism, and that will remain as a
> historial fact that once distinguished intellectual from social, but
> the "definition" of intellectual continues to evolve.
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:45 AM,  <skutvik at online.no> wrote:
> > Ian said:
> >> Blimey, I agree with Platt again ... "We think we're in SOM whenever
> >> we think. But we're actually in MOQ all the time."
> >
> >> That's a neat way to put the problem we have arguing to anything like
> >> conclusions, because our thought and talk is (mostly) hidebound by
> our
> >> SOMist heritage. Even those of us that just "know" we are MoQists,
> can
> >> help tripping up over the SOMism in our arguments, thought or
> expressed.
> >> (Is this the "Ker-Ching", in the Ron / DMB thread ?)
> >
> > I can only say: Amen!
> > Bo
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