[MD] The Quality/MOQ dichotomy.

[Ian Glendinning]

Craig Whoa FOUL !! That sentence is NOT in my mail ? You paraphrased
out any intended meaning - a rhetorical trick to parody something you
don't get / agree with ?

I explicitly said that the differences may be more than conceptual, ie
they are, probably, on the available evidence - but there's the rub
... be careful about whether that evidence really is emprical or
tainted with concepts.

Anyway, what I said was the distinction you make is conceptual. In
fact read what I said.

On to what you said.
The acid, the bacterium, the amoeba are pov's (real ones - probably -
even so-called single-cell organisms are complex multi-level -
physio-bio - pov's) your simplistic objectification of them as
distinct objects is conceptual.

The amoeba, the bacterium and the acid pov's certainly do interact in
ways you describe, but they don't need your concepts (or mine) to do
it - just many intedependent chemical & physical processes in their
shared environments .... probably, on balance of (reported) empirical
evidence.

Regards
Ian

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:38 AM,  <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Ian]
>> The difference between an inorganic pov and you...is just conceptual.
>
> An amoeba that approaches acid backs away, but engulfs a bacterium.
> The amoeba makes a distinction, but it is not conceptual.  More importantly,
> the acid & the bacterium are not concepts.
> Craig
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