[MD] Why isn't the hot stove obvious?

[Ian Glendinning]

Interesting Mary ...

That point that intellect "should" know better than SOMist intellect
(to endlessly reduce and logically dissect) was precisely my point.
Agreed.

I say interesting, because it is Bo who continually wants to bottom
out the logic with SOMist intellect.

Regards Ian

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Mary Clark <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [Ian]
> My view is that this "ambiguity" - a paradoxical aspect - is its
> strength. When the "as if" telos is added to a more reductionist
> Darwinian take on causation, then moral behaviour is all too
> predictable, now and in future - that doesn't make it uniform. The
> problem is most people still look to SOMist arguments to justify their
> predictions - and are surprised when they fail, as any SOMist argument
> containing a paradox will.
>
> [Mary]
> The Intellectual level abhors a paradox as much as the Social level abhors
> an athiest.  Difference is, the Intellectual level is smart enough to know
> there are things out there it cannot dissect with rationality - or it
> should.
>
> Fortunately, Bodvar comes to my rescue.  Is Quality absolute or relative?
> Bo weighs-in in a most decisive way.  Were it absolute, it would beg the
> question of where THAT came from, and that, and that, and that...