#32, RE: there is a difference
Posted by Andrew Gabriel Roth on Mar-20-2002 at 05:45 AM
In response to message #31
If I may answer in this case Akhi Bar Khela...To put up a straw man means to misrepresent the argument of your opponent. This is done by characterizing that argument as overly simplistic--in essence, making it artificially weak. Your opponent may, for example, give four great reasons for his position, and then you pick only the weakest one and ignore the other three. Such a tactic is quite rampant lately.
As for QNOMA being the same kind but a different number, basically what that means is that we COLLECTIVELY as human beings have the same kind of QNOMA--a mortal one. However, my QNOMA is not your QNOMA, nor is yours mine. We do not share one QNOMA. Rather, while we have the same kind, they are not identical.
Now, I do not wish to confuse you, but at the QNOMA level we cannot tell what makes yours different from mine. When those differences emerge that separate us an individuals, then we are talking about PARSOPA.
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth