> Platt said to Steve: > As I read this I can't help but note that you have faith in intellectual > quality (reason) even though reason cannot show by reason that it is > reasonable. What am I missing? > > dmb says: > Empiricism, that's what you're missing here. The value and validity of > reason is not proven by reason. It is proven in experience. It works, as we > know from experience.
What "works," the pragmatism you constantly appeal to as the arbiter of all that's good and true, was blown out of the water by Pirsig: "But the Metaphysics of Quality states that practicality is a social pattern of good. It is immoral for truth to be subordinated to social values since that is a lower form of evolution devouring a higher one." (Lila, 29) > Oh, why do I bother. Why > does anybody bother? (Why does Arlo waste so much time?) It's obvious that > Platt has no respect for reason or evidence. In ten years time I've not seen > an inch of movement or growth. Day after day and year after year its just > the same old tired cliches. The same old anti-intellectual, ditto-head > plattitudes, ones that have nothing to do with the MOQ and everything to do > with right-wing politics. Same to you, pal, except change the last line to "left-wing politics." 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/
