[MD] The first division of the MOQ.

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi David (H)

You summarised your impression of Mark's take thus:

"If everything is static quality", you seem to say.. "then that
appears to be a very sad existence indeed."

(You go on to point out lots of non-static things in real life ...)

Mark's take hinges on the "everything" in the first clause being -
"everything that we can objectivise and discuss in language in a
metaphysics discussion forum (or anywhere else)". That would indeed be
a very sad existence, but of course life, the universe and everything
is a lot more than that, as you point out.

As you perceive it's a source of frustration or sometimes confusion
for many on MD .... that we can only ever skirt around reality ... but
that is the reality of any discourse .... a reason why we need to meet
in the flesh at Hawkwind or Van derGraaf Generator gigs ;-)

Metaphysics discusses meta-life and meta-reality, it's not real-life itself.

Ian