[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[John Carl]

Well Platt and Horse,

You guys are sure thinking along my path right now.

I sure agree that we can't throw bad old intellect out the window.  We need
it more than ever!

We're suffering a dearth of balance, is all.  Poetry is called for in
addition to intellect - as a framer of intellect, as a source of intellect's
innate meanings.

I'm really on this rant now, and it's probably gonna continue...

John

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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