[Ham] > May I remind you that "mediation" does not mean "derivation". It means > "intervention between conflicting parties or agents".
[Arlo] > Mediation, as it is referred to by Pirsig, indicated that the contents of the > latter (mind) do NOT come from "the world of objects" but come about via > social > activity. This is expressed clearly in his statement, "our intellectual > description of nature is always culturally derived" (there is the word > derived, > by the way). Huh? Your thesis may be right, but you can't show what Pirsig means by 'mediated' by showing what he means by 'derived'. (BTW, I think you admitted this.) Craig 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/
