[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[David Thomas]

Marsha,

> I think your quote may be in the Copleston Annotation:
> 
> "The MOQ is not opposed to materialism as long is it is
> understood that materialism is a set of ideas."
> 
No actually it is this one from the SODV paper:

> The bottom box shows inorganic patterns. The Metaphysics of Quality says
> objects are composed of "substance" but it says that this substance can be
> defined more precisely as "stable inorganic patterns of value." This added
> definition makes substance sound more ephemeral than previously but it is not.
> The objects look and smell and feel the same either way. The Metaphysics of
> Quality agrees with scientific realism that these inorganic patterns are
> completely real, and there is no reason that box shouldn't be there, but it
> says that this reality is ultimately a deduction made in the first months of
>an infant's life and supported by the culture in which the infant grows up.

This last sentence, properly understood, pulls together philosophical pieces
from; philosophical realism, pragmatism, radical empiricism, and the MoQ.

No religious mysticism required for understanding.

Dave