[MD] The first division of the MOQ.

[David Harding]

Hi Ian,

I'll bite.  What does this have to do with the first division of the MOQ? Is a Hawkwind or Van derGraaf Generator gig static quality or Dynamic Quality?


On 30/03/2011, at 6:48 PM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> 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
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