[MD] Is the MOQ static, or a static pattern?

[Horse]

Hi Craig

On 18/05/2012 07:43, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:
> [Arlo]
>> Are you suggesting, within the MOQ, there is 'truth' that is NOT provisional?
> Let's start with an easy one: 2 + 2 = 4.
> What is your possible revision?

Doesn't 2 + 2 = 4 by convention upon which it is provisional? After all:
1 + 1 = 10
A + B = 15
A + B = 21


> [Arlo]
>> A speck of dust has a shape because the inorganic components of that speck of dust have found value in attaching
>> themselves is such a way.
>> And it is not "true" that the speck of dust has an "actual shape"
> These 2 statements are inconsistent.  The shape the dust has is its actual shape (what other shape could it be.)

100 years or so ago it would have been the shape of billiard (pool?) 
balls orbiting a central point. Now? It depends on how you think about 
it - as matter, energy or value!

> [Craig, previously]
> What if a sailor used a map to successfully navigate between two islands of the East Indies, then later discovered it was a map of the West Indies?
>
> [Arlo]
>> As long as he could continue using the map to navigate as he needed, it would be 'right' (useful) to him.
> Here you're just repeating your claim that 'right' means useful.
> But that the sailor successfully used a map of the West Indies to navigate the islands of the East Indies
> doesn't make it a correct map of the East Indies.
> Craig
>

This is like asking if a pedestrian managed to find Oxford St in London 
by using a map of Manchester would the map be useful - it would be by 
luck and not design, so, overall the map wouldn't be useful. And she 
wouldn't find it useful for very long anyway as it would be unlikely to 
work more than once and for the most part you'd have no idea where you 
are! Not a good map.

Cheers

Horse

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