[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Warren" <carma at carmapro.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet


> 'grasping for concrete meanings'
>
> what does that sound like to you marsha?
>

Hi Margaret,

The conventional view.  Well, it is hard to believe Ian wasn't more 
impressed by Nagarjuna.   But it's difficult to break those cultural 
glasses.  I've really worked at it, and I'm not convinced it's mine 
thoroughly inside-out.   And I'm sure all too often my language sounds like 
the old view.  But I would have thought the "middle way" would have really 
attracted him.  He so found of the excluded-middles.

Marsha



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>> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org]On Behalf Of david
>> buchanan
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:22 AM
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>> Ian said:
>> At the risk of winding DMB up further, but I'm serious, I think
>> the idea of "rigorous" argument is part of the Giant - one reason
>> I personally prefer conceptual slipping - lateral thinking of
>> sorts - and joining up dots not otherwise connected in logical,
>> causal ways. Traditional "rigour" grasps for those concrete meanings.
>>
>> dmb replied:
>> Right. You're not a clueless, drivel-spewing weasel. You're just
>> trying to be free of the Giant. Yea, that ought to save face. And
>> you can be certain that people will believe it In fact,  that's
>> gotta be one of the most believable things I ever heard.
>>
>>
>>