Cohousing-L Mailing List: Are some ideas wrong?

[Ty Albright (tmalbright]

Sharon;

 

Ideas and beliefs are typically based on personal experience and values.

 

The concept of right and wrong /  good and bad is difficult to answer
because this requires judgement based on perceived values , and individual
values and judgement varies.

 

Possibly you should be asking a different question.    Possibly the
preferred question is "what is best".

 

Ty

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:04:34 -0500

From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>

To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org

Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Are some ideas wrong?

Message-ID: <5C17472C-A902-477A-90D6-8B6062FBCF96 [at] sharonvillines.com>

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There are many sites on the web that discuss the definition of ?idea?. I
won?t summarize them but ideas are usually related to a proposal to act. "My
idea is to design a garden that attracts butterflies."

 

This is a belief or a fact. ?I believe some gardens attract butterflies.?
?Some gardens attract butterflies." If there is any evidence supporting
superiority, then the evidence would be a test of whether the statement is
factual based on some criterion for ?superior.? Beliefs are beliefs and
often not based on anything.

 

An idea can be a good or bad one depending on the results expected, etc.,
but it can?t be wrong until there is no requirement for being factual.

 

Sharon

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Sharon Villines

Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC

http://www.takomavillage.org