[MD] theories of truth

[MarshaV]

Copleston text:
In point of fact, however, 'judgment is not the synthesis of ideas, but the reference of ideal content to reality'. And it is Bradley's contention that the latent and ultimate subject of any judgment is reality as a whole, reality, we may say, with a capital letter. 'Not only (this is our doctrine) does all judgment affirm of Reality, but in every judgment we have the assertion that "Reality is such that S is P".' If, for example, I assert that this leaf is green, I am asserting that reality as a whole, the universe, is such that this leaf is green. There is no such thing as an isolated particular fact. So-called particular facts are what they are only because reality as a whole is what it is.

This point of view has an evident bearing on the relative adequacy of different types of judgment. For if reality as a whole is the latent ultimate subject of every judgment, it follows that the more particular a judgment is, the less adequate is it as a description of its ultimate subject. Further, an analytic judgment, in the sense of one which analyses a particular given sense-experience, distorts reality by arbitrarily selecting elements from a complex whole and treating them as though they constituted a self-sufficient particular [226] fact, whereas there are no such facts. The only self-sufficient fact is reality as a whole.  



RMP:

Very good.





On May 23, 2013, at 6:48 AM, David Harding <davidjharding at gmail.com> wrote:

> And so I conclude - Marsha is a mystic and has no interest in intellectual quality or questions about whether something exists before we think about it.
> 
> On 23/05/2013, at 8:11 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>> On May 23, 2013, at 5:43 AM, David Harding <davidjharding at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Marsha wrote:
>>>> You don't think so?   
>>>> 
>>>> Marsha wrote more:
>>>> 
>>>> Imagination?  How did you come to choose this particular entry from the dictionary?  How did you know this is what I meant?  Maybe I meant 'imagination' as a stand-in for 'illusion', 'ghost', 'useful fiction' and 'maya'.  
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>>>> Dictionary:
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>>>> Dictionary - "a book, optical disc, mobile device, or online lexical resource(such as Dictionary.com ) containing a selection of the words of a language, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, derived forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary. Print dictionaries of various sizes, ranging from small pocket dictionaries to multivolume books, usually sort entries alphabetically, as do typical CD or DVD dictionary applications, allowing one to browse through the terms in sequence. All electronic dictionaries, whether online or installed on a device, can provide immediate, direct access to a search term, its meanings, and ancillary information: _an unabridged dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary_." 
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>>>> And more:
>>>> Is this what you think?  You think of value sometimes as external "objects"?  That's interesting.   
>>>> 
>>>> And finally some more:
>>>> I can't imagine such a question.  I accept the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world is nothing but Value.  
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>>> 
>>> Marsha,
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>>> You seem only interested in playing the game of 'intellectual tries and fails to catch the mystic'.  Oh, oh - I'll play the intellectual - you play the Mystic! 
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>>> And go!
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>>> Orrrr.. not so much.  dmb might like to play this game but I don't.  Are you interested in the question of whether things exist before we think about them?
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>> David,
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>> Who's playing games now?  Do you expect to manipulate me with such rhetoric?  Your question doesn't make sense to me.  Everything-is-connected-to-everything...  Play the part of an intellectual if it makes you feel superior.   I'll play the role of a flow of ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent and impermanent static patterns: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual patterns of value flowing within the infinite field of Dynamic Quality.    
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>> Bye David.
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>> Marsha 
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