[MD] The other side of reified

[Joseph Maurer]

On 6/1/11 9:33 PM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> For one thing, we don't "directly experience Quality independent of
> intellectual abstractions."  Quality is an assessment of the aesthetic or
> moral value of a phenomenon relative to other phenomena experienced or
> observed.  That involves memory recall, intellectual judgment, and
> sufficient experience with the type of phenomenon in question to make such
> an assessment.  (And please don't quote me the hot stove analogy again.
> Getting one's ass burned is not experiencing Quality--high or low, positive
> or negative--it's feeling pain.)
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Hi Ham and all,

"Instinctive", "moving", "existing" seem to be coupled to a direct
experience of "Quality" so much so that we can express a Yes! or No! To the
experience.

Joe