[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[markhsmit]

On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:57:27 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
From:   MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>
Subject:    Re: [MD] Intellect's Symposium
Date:   February 7, 2010 12:57:27 AM PST
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org

On Feb 7, 2010, at 3:28 AM, markhsmit wrote:

> 
> Now, I would also add that Quality denies empirical Truths
> such as Ham proposes. Indeed if "truth is relative", then even
> that statement is relative in itself. This notion would deny any kind
> of scaffolding to anything and would result in some kind of 
> existential meaninglessness. Worse yet, it would also
> relegate all opinions to meaningless statements. I believe we
> are beyond that point. There is a context to our realities.

Mark,


“…if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one doesn't seek the absolute Truth.' One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual explanation of things with the knowledge that if the past is any guide to the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until something better comes along. One can then examine intellectual realities the same way one examines paintings in an art gallery, not with an effort to find out which one is the 'real' painting, but simply to enjoy and keep those that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of values.

(LILA, Chapter 8)
Yes Marsha, exactly.  Thanks for the support in the quote.  Quality does not 
support any Truths, that was the end result of ZAMM, and Phaedrus
goes crazy.  The concept of Truth is not meaningful.  One cannot 
claim to label the joints of reality.

Cheers,
Mark

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