[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[John Carl]

Well I'm sure there's congruence, Dave, since they both came from the same
individual..

But the exact quote, is from Copleston.

I'm gonna get my lazy ass in bed on a sunday morning out and find my laptop,
right now.

John

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:16 AM, David Thomas <combinedefforts at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> 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
>
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