[MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

[MarshaV]

Hi dmb,



On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> "...if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one doesn't seek the absolute Truth.' One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual explanation of things... There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of values." (LILA)
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> Marsha said:
> And why I consider your opinions, as well as mine, hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real or true.)
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> David replied:
> ...Truth is provisional and taken as useful until something better comes along!   That is quite different than hypothetical. If you cannot see that then please look at a dictionary.
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> dmb says:
> Yes, as I keep trying to explain, Marsha's view of intellectual static quality amounts to anti-intellectualism. It turns intellectual quality into a fleeting and whimsical "opinion". And this turns the MOQ's pragmatic theory of truth into the worst kind of relativism wherein everyone's opinion is equally hypothetical. 

There's nothing fleeting and whimsical about hypothetical, nothing at all.  It means supposed but not neccesarily real or true.

Once one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world is nothing but Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an individual transforms the natural tendency to reify self and world into the natural tendency to hold all static patterns of value to be hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real or true.)  Understanding static (patterned) value as hypothetical acknowledges the incompleteness of what we know and makes room for additional inquiry with new possibilities; it promotes an attitude of fearless curiosity: gumption.  It moves one away from thinking of entities as existing inherently and independent of consciousness.  

 
Marsha