[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[John Carl]

Hi Steve,

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Steven Peterson
<peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:


>
> I think intellectual quality is is like every other sort of quality,
> isn't it? It is just the usual undefined betterness of Quality. When
> we say an idea is good we mean "good" in the same way we do when we
> say a chocolate cake is good.


The thing is Steve, we can intellectually define the characteristics of a
really good chocolate cake.  We can analyze lipids and carbs, texture and
smell - humorous aside, reminds me the time I went backpacking in the
Sierras with my old friend Steve and his engineering buddies, they were
flipping pancakes and they weren't coming out too well and he commented,
"hmm.. these seem to be lacking in tensile strength".

Thus to my mind, "every other sort of quality", by which I take it you mean
mainly social or  biological, are intellectually analyzable while
intellectual quality is not.

I usually think of intellectual quality as "truth".

Is truth intellectually analyzable?  That's been an ongoing debate for a
while.


Take care,

John