[MD] Being-Aware

[MarshaV]

to expand a tiny bit...

At 02:14 PM 9/24/2008, you wrote:

>Hi Marsha --
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>>The MOQ starts with experience.  Experience is reality.
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>If you're going to stick with this terminology, you will have to 
>define what you mean by "experience".
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>I would define it as the awareness of being.  Experience by itself 
>is a malapropism.  We cannot experience nothing,  All experience is 
>awareness of something.  By my previous analysis, that "some-thing" 
>is being   Therefore, experiential reality (existence) is 
>being-aware, and we are the beings aware.
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>The purpose of my analysis is to reduce assertions to fundamental 
>propositions.  I agree that physical existence is experiential, but 
>unless we all agree as to what experience is, it's just another 
>ambiguous word that could mean "imagining", "feeling", 
>"sensibility", or "general knowledge". Indefiniteness spawns confusion.
>
>Can you accept "being-aware" as my definition for experiential 
>reality, at least for purposes of this discussion?   If not, tell me why.

Hello Ham,

Right from the dictionary:  Experience

5. Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; 
all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/experience

Why is this a problem?  Why don't you accept experience as reality?

Marsha




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