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ADRIE KINTZIGER parser666 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 14:10:26 PST 2010


I think you should consider absolute pastafarianism
as a possible sol-ution

2010/12/6 John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>

> Marsha,
>
> Plainly,  only a Cleveland harbor effect *would* make the following
> significant.
>
> > "...James had condensed this description [of radical empiricism] to a
> > single sentence. 'There must always be a discrepancy between concepts and
> > reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter
> is
> > dynamic and flowing.' Here James had chosen exactly the same words
> Phaedrus
> > had used for the basic subdivision of the Metaphysics of Quality." (p.
> 365)
> > >
> >
>
>  A coincidence of terms is no "sign" of anything.  Big mistake, dave, (and
> RMP, sorry to say)  Quality is where subject and object MEET.  "The
> entanglement between" not the "eternal divorce from".
>
> The only reality we'll ever know is our conceptualization.  To say "there
> must always be a discrepancy" is just as impossibly ridiculous as "there is
> never a discrepancy".  Sometimes there is a lot of discrepancy (low
> quality)
> and sometimes there is none or little (high quality)  What is fundamental
> is
> not the discrepancy, but the quality.
>
>
> > "The Metaphysics of Quality is a continuation of the mainstream of
> > twentieth century American philosophy. It is a form of pragmatism, of
> > instrumentalism, which says the test of the true is the good." (p. 366)
> > >
> >
>
> Absolutely.  And I mean that "Absolutely" rhetorically as well as
> literally.  Good, as reality's fundament, is the test of everything.  Like,
> what good does radical empircism do anybody?  None whatsoever that I can
> see.  That's how I know it's not true.
>
> John the helpful, productive and fun
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