[MD] Hoy stoves and those who sit on them

[Ham Priday]

Back to Marsha --


> The dictionary should be my final authority???
> I don't think you mean that.  Patterns of preference,
> patterns of experience, patterns of value, I think RMP
> has chosen the most perfect word.

When it comes to what a word means, yes, the dictionary is our final 
authority.

> You say that experience is an extension of value-sensibility,
> but you have not explained how you define value-sensibility.
> What is it?
>
> Please define/describe a subject?  Is that a mind?  Is that a body?
> Is it a mind and body?  What else?  Please, what exactly is a subject?

<Ham's Dictionary>

Value-sensibility -- a) The pre-intellectual affinity or attraction of the 
'self' for the essential Source from which it is estranged as an existent. 
b) The basis of all sensation, including visual, auditory, tactile, 
olfactory, gustatory, aesthetic and intellectual awareness, and the 
psycho-emotional feelings sensed in response to value.  c) The experiential 
ground of being from which objective reality is constructed.  Synonym: 
proprietary selfness.

Subject -- That self-aware entity which senses and apprehrends the otherness 
commonly known as "existential reality" or "the objective world" and 
identified objectively as a living human being with a mind and body of its 
own.  Synonyms: Self, Agent, Observer, Knower.

Experience -- a) The conscious perception of an external, bodily, or psychic 
phenomenon.
b) An event that is personally encountered, undergone, or lived through.

> Isn't what you're calling a universal, a pattern?

Universal -- a) A proposition of traditional logic.  b) A general concept or 
term connoting something in reality to which it corresponds.

Pattern -- a) A form or model proposed for imitation.  b) Something designed 
or used as a model or mold for making things.  c) A natural or chance 
configuration (e,g., 'frost pattern' or 'pattern of events').

Still in pursuit of clarity,

--Ham