[MD] Static form

[MarshaV]

Well yes, x-man, RMP wrote:

"Unlike subject-object metaphysics the Metaphysics of Quality does not insist on a single exclusive truth."   (RMP, 'LILA', Chapter 8)

Perhaps your experience of a ship is sailing across a page in a dictionary.


Marsha


On Feb 24, 2013, at 12:42 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>  
> "Think of the Ship of Theseus, or a parade (Hume) where everyone drops out but is replaced so that the parade is maintained, or the body with its cells constantly being replaced..."
>  
>  
> The form of the ship, the concept the generalization, persists through change while the experience
> comes to be and passes away.
>  
> A ship is a ship by virtue of it's definition and use not it's size nor composition. 
>  
>  
> Has the definition of a ship changed in the last 5,000 years? a circle? a square?
>  
>  
> ..
>