[MD] Step One

[Andre Broersen]

Platt to Mark:

In the Metaphysics of Quality, the source of concepts such as SOM is
Dynamic Quality. DQ  is the source of all things.

Andre:
I stand corrected here Platt but this does not seem quite right. Yes, as Phaedrus puts it in ZMM
'The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and the objects,...' but this does not yet make for a
[subject-object] metaphysics. SOM emerged out of the observation with which Phaedrus concludes the sentence:'... which are then mistakenly presumed to be the cause of Quality!'. (ZMM, p234)

SOM does not acknowledge DQ. It suggests that the basic stuff 'composing' reality are subjects and objects full stop...and that Quality is an attribute of subjects and objects. This is backwards.

'The dilemma all the time had this unseen vile presumption in it, for which there was no logical justification, that Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not!He brought out his knife.
'The sun of Quality' he wrote 'does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way.It has created them. They are subordinate to it'(ibid)