[MD] irony and socrates

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Marsha,


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Marsha <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>
> If the question is whether the patterns in the Intellectual Level are
> subject/object in nature, I still agree with you Bo.
>
> Marsha
>


I'm not sure what you could mean when you say this. If your point is
that all patterns can be thought of as either subjects or objects,
even if I grant that that is true (which I don't since I think
concepts like good and love and infinity and experience among others
will give us trouble here), that still leaves the question of whether
they are *best* thought of that way. Also, the habit of mind of
distinguishing between subjects and objects is just one among a
multitude of intellectual patterns such as preferring simpler over
more complicated explanations (when all else is equal) and preferring
explanations that describe a wide range of experience over ones which
describe only a particular narrow set of experiences and preferring
explanations that cohere with other explanations that we have already
selected.

Best,
Steve