[MD] Essentialism - based in SOM?

[Ham Priday]

Greetings, Ron --


On Thurs, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:24 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:


> Ham had said:
> "Any philosopher who insists that existence precedes essence
> has made Being his fundamental reality.  Essentialism takes the
> opposite view: Being is an experiential construct of essential Value."
>
> Ron:
> Which is the classic struggle between rationalism and empiricism.
> You are attempting to make rationalist arguments regarding the
> empirical point of view. So far, you have not been doing very well.
>
> To be more clear, the philosopher who insists experience precedes
> essence has made Being his fundamental reality.
> The philosopher who insists Being is a construct of essential value
> has made an idea his fundamental reality.

Which demonstrates why "rationalists" (by which I assume you mean 
semioticists) are unable to conceptualize beyond the written word.  The 
"idea" that I have postulated is a conception of reality, not a rational 
argument based on artful wordplay.

I'm "not doing very well" in conveying this concept because "radical 
empiricists" who disguise their empirical ontology under the Quality 
umbrella are unwilling to acknowledge a non-relational source for
the appearance of Being.  They're still wondering how a universe made of 
Quality arises from nothingness.

Essentially speaking,
Ham