[MD] Joe's MOQ terminology

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Ant,

At 80 my chronology of schooling is muddled.

I went to a Catholic seminary for six years from the 8th grade studying
Latin, Greek etc., to become a Catholic priest.  Metaphysics was the highest
course in philosophy after 4 years of logic and physics.  I spent my high-
school years and two years of college at the seminary.  I did not continue
to the next level and was never ordained as a Catholic priest.

>From the seminary I went to the Dominican Order to became a monk. ST. Thomas
Aquinas was a Dominican.  I studied his thinking in philosophy as well as
the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine.  After 2 years of study I
was released from the monastery.  I spent two more years to get a BA degree
in philosophy at a local Junior college.

I left studying philosophy and became a plumber to support my wife and
family.  It seems philosophy has not left me!

Joe


On 3/17/13 3:29 PM, "Ant McWatt" <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Joe Maurer stated March 17th 2013:
> 
> 
>> In the theory of knowledge I find no place for abstraction. Direct
>> experience of hierarchical existence reveals limits to conceptualization.
>> 
>> I accept reality as levels in existence, evolution. I am in favor of a
>> concept of hierarchical evolutionary reality through limits to the
>> hierarchical structure. I can't jump on my horse and ride off in all
>> directions.
>> 
>> My metaphysical education was the study of SOM.
> 
> Ant McWatt comments:
> 
> Joe,
> 
> Firstly, I'd be interested in hearing more details of this "metaphysical
> education" of yours!
> 
> 
> Joe Maurer continued March 17th 2013:
> 
>> DQ/SQ is more readily
>> understood as indefinable individuality, definable reality than
>> subject/object division. DQ the indefinable manifests in evolution in
>> existence of indefinable/definable reality.
> 
> Ant McWatt comments:
> 
> Secondly, I can largely follow what you're saying here Joe except for your use
> of the term "individuality" in the phrase "indefinable individuality"
> (especially in the context of Dynamic Quality).  It's unclear to me why you
> didn't use the term "reality" instead (so the term read as "indefinable
> reality").
> 
> 
> Best wishes, as ever,
> 
> Ant
> 
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