[MD] relatively static

[MarshaV]

Greetings J-A,

On Apr 14, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Jan Anders Andersson <jananderses at telia.com> wrote:


> 
>>> J-A:
>>> why should you burn the clay?
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> Before (when soft and malleable) and after a firing (when firm), the clay is still in a constant state of changing.
> 
> J-A:
> Sure, but the important thing about the usefulness, the value, during the pot's time, is that it is hard enough to keep the content from leaking out of it.

Marsha:
A different point-of-view might be that the functioning value of the pot is the empty space inside it.


> You sound like that stablity is constantly inferior to change.

Marsha:
No, I've made no such judgmental statement.


> I say that they are even and that all we know about this ever-change is patterned.

I agree that static patterns of value are objects of knowledge that represent what we conventionally know.  

Hmmm.  Can one know what a pattern is not?   
 

Marsha