[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hi Horse,
I think reality can be known without concepts -- the hot stove example -- a pre-
intellectual understanding of the Quality reality. To rationally communicate 
that understanding to somebody else, however, requires we use a "menu" of 
static intellectual patterns consisting of subjects and objects, the 
fundamental nature of language. 

But, that brings up a question I've been wondering about. Is poetry (metaphor) 
within the intellectual level? Or is it more within the code of art? Or is it a 
bridge between the two, like the link between art and science at the cutting 
edge of the unknown?

Would appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks,
Platt 


On 7 May 2010 at 22:51, Horse wrote:

Maybe the fundamental nature of reality can't be contained by intellect 
but without intellect and a good metaphysics would we even know that 
there was a fundamental nature to reality. It's unlikely that we'd even 
have the concept of it because that's an intellectual pattern. And 
without intellect we would have no way of creating that concept.

On 07/05/2010 20:48, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
> On 7 May 2010 at 12:44, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
>
> [Platt]
> "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu
> and no food." (Lila, 5)
>
> [Arlo]
> A quote from a book of metaphysics.
>
> A metaphor illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality cannot be
> contained by intellect.