[MD] Protagoras: everything is relative...

[MarshaV]

On Oct 29, 2011, at 5:11 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:46 PM, 118 wrote:
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>> Hi Marsha,
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>> Mark
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>> On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:59 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>> Marsha:
>>> My view on Quality is very simple.  Reality = Quality(unpatterned experience/patterned experience).   Would you like me to add that the fundamental nature of static quality is Dynamic Quality.  
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>> Mark:
>> No, that would not work for me, as you know.
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>> If saying Quality is exactly the same as saying Reality, then I will have to give this word replacement a try.  I will start with some simple metaphysical essays to see if it works. 
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>> I guess that one of the questions that Pirsig received that started this "Are you teaching quality?" should be changed to "Are you teaching reality?"  Who knows, maybe Quality does equal Reality.  
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>> Maybe we should change the label for our interests to MoR-on your discovery of linguistic equivalence.  I am game if every one else is.
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> Marsha:
> I don't think it needs to be changed to MoR for Reality anymore than it needs to change to the MoV for Value, or the MoE for Experience, or the MoM for Morals.
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Marsha:
Or, I could say that metaphysics is the investigation into the nature of Reality, so that I have found Reality to be Quality: Dynamic and static. 



Marsha
 
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