hi Craig, On Wednesday, December 19, 2007, at 11:40AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Pirsig, courtesy Steve] >"A conventional subject-object metaphysics uses the same four static >patterns as the Metaphysics of Quality, dividing them into two groups >of two: inorganic-biological patterns called "matter," and social- >intellectual patterns called "mind."...Everything has got to be object or >subject, substance or non-substance, because that's the primary >division of the universe. Inorganic-biological patterns are composed >of "substance," and are therefore "objective." Social-intellectual >patterns are not composed of "substance" and are therefore called >"subjective."
Craig: >Is the mind/matter distinction the same as the subjective/objective? >Or are the distinctions the same within MOQ but not within SOM? I think mind/matter ammounts to the same as subject/object. >[Pirsig, via Steve again] >"So what the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that all schools are >right on the mind-matter question. Mind is contained in static >inorganic patterns. Matter is contained in static intellectual >patterns." > >This has always seemed a slip of the tongue to me. Does anyone else think so? I'm not sure what you mean. Reagrds, Steve 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/
