[MD] Being-Aware

[MarshaV]

Why don't you go answer my question:

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:26:46 -0400
To: MD Forum <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
Subject: [MD] Patterns

then maybe we can consider the possibility of epistemology.  Maybe a 
pattern can have multiple epistemological identities.  Or?

Marsha





At 09:34 AM 9/25/2008, you wrote:


>Such lack of specificity makes our concept of experience fuzzy at best and
>subject to spurious interpretations.  For example, is the reality of
>experience illusionary?  Is experience the only reality?  And who's
>experience are we talking about -- mine, yours, or "the totality of ...all
>that is perceived and remembered?  How does experience differ from
>intellectual knowledge, or the accumulation of knowledge throughout all of
>human experience?  (A library is full of such knowledge, but it isn't
>experience.)  Don't you see the ambiguity here, and how it leads to models
>of reality constructed from loose assertions that have different meanings
>for different people?  That's an exercise in folly, not philosophy.
>
>I submit that there is nothing vague or ambiguous about being-aware.  This
>definition
>encompasses sentience, perception, cognition, and apprehension in the
>"immediate" sense, avoiding misconceived allusions to intellect, conception,
>memory, or behavior.  More significantly, it relates the individual subject
>(self) of experience to its objective content: Being.  This affords an
>epistemological foundation for philosophical development, without limiting
>"reality" to existence or forcing either a phenomenalistic or a
>materialistic ontology.
>
>Words and phrases may evoke emotional responses, but they add nothing to
>ontology unless they express a concept or proposition.  The "problem" is one
>of communication and understanding.  The distinction I'm trying to draw here
>is between descriptive prose and dialectic principles.
>
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