[MD] Bitterness over Betterness

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Ham and all,

Thanks or your thoughtful response to my previous post.  When Substance is
the only existing reality, then the faculty that apprehends Substance is the
only real existent.  Pirsig rightly observed that Conception is not the only
vehicle for knowledge.  For conception to be all embracing everything has to
be defined.  That is not the way we apprehend reality.  There is something
in our reality that perceived and indefinable yet still experienced by an
individual, emotions.

When you consider the use of a word, you expect everyone to have the same
reaction to it. This is not possible with the word LOVE.  There is something
indefinable in LOVE.  There is an emotional LOVE that is used in the
definition every word in reaction, while remaining indefinable.

  


On 4/27/11 9:05 PM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> I guess my query is leading toward the question: Why do we need a
> metaphysics of Quality when mankind has demonstrated its ability to
> establish a moral civilization with plain old SOM?   (I realize I'm playing
> devil's advocate with you here, but I'd really like to hear your answer.)
> 
>  Thanks, again, Joe.
> Ham