[MD] Emerson for Marsha

[Matt Kundert]

Hi Marsha,

As I see it, the only difference between us is that you find 
the button "Relativism" one you want to stick on your hiking 
backpack, and I don't like that color, but prefer 
"Relationalism," though I think they signal to people in our 
hiking club roughly the same thing (though not always, and 
particularly people not in the club, which is why it can 
become a big deal for other people facing off against each 
other, like Steve and DMB).

This is just to say, since you've been reading and 
meditating on these matters of relativity and whatnot, that 
I ran across a passage in Emerson that might pique your 
interest in him for your search:

"...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.  
He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation 
passes from every other being to him.  And neither can 
man be understood without these objects, not these 
objects without man."

--from Nature, Chapter 4, "Language"

Matt
 		 	   		  
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