[MD] The Menu/Reality issue

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]
> objects and events are phenomenal.  They 
> represent our intellectual constructs of Value 

This seems backwards.  Our intellectual constructs
represent objects and events (= phenomena = Value). 
CONCEPTS are intellectual constructs  (i.e.,
they are intellectual & constructed.)  But phenomena
cannot be identical to concepts.  The concept of
'dinosaur' came into existence a few centuries ago;
dinosaurs came into existence millions of years ago.
The 'unicorn' concept exists, but not the unicorn.
Craig