From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 15:20:15 BST
Hi Scott, Steve:
STEVE:
> Platt, when you say, "Experience (Quality) is always the primary context.
> Thus, truth is experience-dependent, experience being the germinal context
> from which all other subsidiary contexts (such as historicism) are
> derived," I'm not sure I understand what you are referring to. If you mean
> experience *of* something, you aren't talking about the Quality event.
> These "experiences of" occur within specific contexts. Truths that we can
> write down describe "experiences of" not Experience and so are context
> dependent.
SCOTT
>This is why I suggested looking on DQ as "primary context", not
>"primary" (and note that I said Quality is beyond the "context/in-
>context" distinction, since a context and its contents is form). Another
>way to say "primary context" is "ultimate background". What I am
>getting at is that to be aware of any piece of SQ requires that the SQ
>"exists" (etymologically: "stands out"), for which it needs a
>background. Now one layer of SQ can serve as background for
>another, but behind them all is what? I nominate DQ, but the next step
>is to say that this ultimate background is the "pure perceiver". Since
>this in turn is an undecideable non-thing, the mystery of DQ remains.
I think Scott and Steve may be saying the same thing. But I'm not sure.
Would you help settle the question for me? Are you both together on
the concepts of Quality, DQ, SQ and the Quality Event?.
Thanks.
Platt
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