Greetings,
PLATT:
An excellent posting Platt. Some of it I personally would express in different language, but I have
no conceptual or intellectual problems with it whatsoever. Your position here is well thought out,
coherent and (as far as I'm concerned) accurate. Thank you for the input, there is good stuff here
to take away and the quotations you provide demonstrate precisely my point in a more 'MoQ
user-friendly' way than the quotations I used.
HORSE:
I'm not sure I understand your distinction between scientific materialism and philosophical
materialism. A scientist collates and interprets data in his own specific field. It is the case that
there are things for which present science has no means of data collection but I don't think that
any scientist would infer from this that there is nothing beyond his/her own measuring equipment. Or
do I misunderstand?
MARY:
Two points. One of the great things about science is that it constantly renews itself. There is
nothing 'off limits' in the sense of refusal to entertain new ideas (perhaps the term has a
different nuance here in England). I'm sure you appreciate this but wanted to emphasise the point.
You add that the MoQ can help science find a new model and on this I agree - I have said very
similar things myself on a number of occasions. The second point is about 'non-corporeal reality.'
Science does have provision for understanding this. The distinction between corporeal and
non-corporeal no longer exists for mainstream philosophers of science - as it doesn't in the MoQ.
Again there is no contradiction here, these terms have been redefined.
ROGER:
Thanks for the invitation to play - yours was one of the votes of confidence I felt important.
(freezing my backside off in Warwick by the way - a pain shared etc. . . ).
Last but not least. Purely from a selfish view could those who disagree with the rules at least do
so with a little class. The recent display consisted of some of the poorest quality entertainment
one could imagine. Very sad.
Struan
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Struan Hellier
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purified in the process."
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