[MD] Patterns

[Magnus Berg]

Hi

Heather Perella wrote:
> Magnus:
>> I agree with Christoffer, every *thing* is a
>> pattern. As P wrote in Lila:
>> "nothing is left out. No 'thing,' that is. Only
>> Dynamic Quality, which cannot be 
>> described in any encyclopedia, is absent."
> 
> SA:  You know your use of 'thing' carries baggage.

Yes. That's a bit unfortunate but I hoped the rest would hint that it was used 
in its most general meaning. Maybe "phenomenon", or some other word would suit 
better?

>  We
> could start with defining pattern first.  Here's some
> definitions of pattern from a dictionary:
> 
>       A)  give a regular or intelligible form
>       B)   a regular and intelligible form or sequence
> discernible in certain actions or situations
>       (Wikipedia) C)  A pattern, from the French
> patron, is a theme of reoccurring events or objects,
> sometimes referred to as elements of a set. These
> elements repeat in a predictable manner. It can be a
> template or model which can be used to generate things
> or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are
> created have enough in common for the underlying
> pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are
> said to exhibit the unique pattern.

I thought Marsha asked for the MoQ meaning of pattern?


> SA continues:  A pattern from these above definitions
> is intelligible and regular/thematic (repeating).  
>                           Not necessarily a 'thing', I
> would say 'event', for me at least, is a better way of
> putting this.
>                           These eventful patterns are
> named in the moq, they are called intellectual,
> social, organic, and inorganic.

But if you say pattern=event, then the quality event becomes unintelligible. It 
becomes "an event consisting of two events".

	Magnus