LS Re: FAQ - Metaphysics and all that


Magnus Berg (qmgb@bull.se)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:17:09 +0100


Welcome back Diana.

I have some thoughts about your FAQ suggestions.

> What is inorganic quality?
>
> Inorganic quality is what is usually understood as matter.

I'd like to add at least energy to that.

>
> What is biological quality?
>
> Biological quality is life and that which propagates life.

Why don't we just use the definitions from SODV for now? That
goes for the other levels too I suppose. We seem to have
different opinions about them when we extrapolate on our own.

> How do humans fit into the four levels of Static Quality?
>
> People are cohesions of changing static patterns of value. All living
> humans and all animals and plants are biological value because of the
> very fact that they are alive. A human who has been raised in a society
> will also be possessed by social values. These values may be recognized
> in the form of beliefs, behavior, speech patterns, customs and so on.
> Humans raised in most modern societies are also possessed by
> intellectual value. This is recognized as an ability to reason.

I don't agree with much of this but I think you know that and I won't
repeat myself. At least state that this is one way to describe a
human in terms of the four levels, not *the* way.

        Magnus

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