David,

In my eagerness to respond I neglected a greeting.  I am very sorry about that.  You have not posted for a very long time, and I was quite happy to see your name.  I hope you will disregard my rudeness.


Marsha




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On Jan 15, 2012, at 4:08 AM, MarshaV <valkyr@att....> wrote:

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> On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:55 PM, David Harding <davidjharding@gmai...> wrote:
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>> Hi Marsha et al,
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>> I think there needs to be a few distinctions made here.
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>> Firstly, the word 'relativity' from a SOM perspective is a problem.  'All truths are relative and so we don't really know what's true' is a SOM statement.  
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> SOM has more than a few problems; especially the implication that entities are things-in-themselves. If every SOM statement is tossed out, we'd be left with very few.  Who will choose which statements go and which statements stay?  Should choice be based on a cultural bias?  
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> The statement 'All swans are white', 'All dogs are mean' or 'All anything is anything', for that matter, hane a problem from the subject-object perspective.  It's an inductive problem at the very least.  "Truth is relative" from a MoQ perspective works quite well.
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