[MD] e: Reading & Comprehension

[Ian Glendinning]

Are you weird, Marsha ? Not to me. Beautifully human.

That "NATURE is intellect" was preceded by the clause "IF intellect is
SOM ...then .. " is an example of something you may have missed ? Arlo
wasn't asserting anything forecfuly at all.

Ian

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:25 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I'm not sure how I responded to is "NATURE is intellect", but 'nature' is
> a static pattern of value, not an absolute.  No matter how forceful he
> states it, I'm not going to take anything as a given until I consider it
> fully.  I was discussing a level of patterns, and I had the feeling he was
> discussing 'thinking'.  There is something in the way he uses the
> word 'intellect' that makes me think it's about thinking in general.
>
> One can look at all patterns as 'conceptions', or one can look at
> what patterns represent, their category or function.  I can all too
> easily toss it all off to conceptual vapor, and go chop wood.  But I'm
> curious to thoroughly understand how it works.  If I can.  It is not
> unimportant to the way lives are lived.
>
> Am I weird?
>
>
>
>
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> On May 16, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:
>
>> Arlo, Marsha,
>>
>> Marsha, is your problem reacting to Arlo saying this is how it is -
>> the insulting schoolmasterly impression - because you are missing that
>> his sentences start with IF ?
>>
>> Just logical consequences of the statements of others.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>>> [Marsha]
>>> The
>>> lament
>>> is
>>> based
>>> on
>>> a
>>> misconception:
>>> that
>>> entities (self & object)
>>> exist
>>> independently.
>>>
>>> [Arlo]
>>> Which is... TAADAA!.. SOM! If ALL intellectual patterns are SOM, this is NOT
>>> a misconception, it is the NATURE of intellect.
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