[MD] SOM level?

[Steve Peterson]

Hi All,

Which came first? Subjects and objects or SOM?

Bo proposes that intellect originates with a distinction between symbol 
and what is symbolized. I agree that such a distinction is important 
and is presupposed in most intellectual patterns, but is this all we 
mean by SOM?

SOM is a metaphysics that says that subjects and objects is all that 
reality really is. Thinking in terms of subjects and objects must 
naturally precede such philosophizing about the nature of reality. In 
other words, S/O thinking is not the same as S/O metaphysics (SOM).

Regards,
Steve