more questionable wiki: Subject-Object Based Metaphysics is terminology used by the author Robert M. Pirsig to the historically dominant form of metaphysics in Western philosophy. Pirsig claims that the use of subjects and objects as separate distinct entities stems from the founding of modern intellectual discourse on the logic of "plus or minus". Things either are or aren't, and any further findings are considered non-empirical. The subjective side of thought is considered entirely non-empirical. Pirsig also notes that The subject object metaphysics have distanced subjects from objects in places where they are inexorably linked. Pirsig uses the undefinable notion of quality to re-unify the two terms using the Metaphysics of Quality.
Ron: I understand Pirsig as saying SOM is "either/or" logic of excluded middles which is embedded in our culture. I still contend that SOM either /or logic is different than subject/object distinction. how we intellectualize subject/object distinction is the crux and the basis of MOQ. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
