i concur. bo you are wrong. guess i ain't a thinker.
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MD] Congratulations America! > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: Tuesday, 11 November, 2008, 4:02 AM > Bodvar said:...I believe that the "SOM as > intellect" tenet is now generally accepted (among the > thinkers) and that means that the MOQ is no intellectual > pattern and thus saved. DMB will probably repeat "Bo is > wrong" till he drops, but that can't be helped.dmb > says:Consider it repeated. There are many thinkers that make > a case against SOM and of course they use intellect to make > that case. I think this should be obvious because the MOQ is > our prime example of such a non-SOM intellectual > description. Maybe your confusion is caused by a failure to > distinguish between the capacity to think with the product > of that capacity. It's like the difference between the > skill of a carpenter and one of his products, between the > ability to cook and the meal that's been prepared. The > ability to manipulate abstractions is different than any > particular configuration of of abstractions. That's how > we can think of metaphysical systems as paintings in a > gallery. The same basic skill set can produc > e any number of pictures. The notion that there can only > be one true picture of reality is one of the central > problems with SOM. Unlike the MOQ, scientific objectivity > allows only one construction of things. This is also a > feature of all forms of essentialism. I mean, your > insistence that intellect equals SOM is probably, and > ironically, a stubborn vestige of the SOM picture of > reality.Personally, I don't like the consequences of > that equation either. It denigrates the intellect and more > or less denies it the capacity to change or evolve or to > paint new pictures. Pirsig is saying that intellect is the > most dynamic level and that's what makes it the most > moral level but your equation turns the intellectual level > into the MOQ's own worst enemy. Time to go to work. > _________________________________________________________________ > Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to > suspicious email. > http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_112008 > 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/ Find your perfect match today at the new Yahoo!7 Dating. Get Started http://au.dating.yahoo.com/?cid=53151&pid=1012 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/
