[MD] Why are things called patterns?

[MarshaV]

Hi Craig,

On Mar 25, 2012, at 3:28 PM, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

> [Marsha]
>> can anything at all be apprehended apart from one's complex of cognitive processes?
>> Not a universe, not billions-of-years, not humans, and not advanced civilizations.
> 
> Try going in the opposite direction.
> Can iron filings apprehend a magnet & arrange themselves in a pattern?
> Can a mother mouse apprehend the cry of her joey?
> Craig

Not iron filings, a magnet, mother mouse or her joey are apprehended apart from human  cognitive processes.  And I still not saying that patterns of value are mere ideas.



Marsha