Bo, Pirsig is of the pragmatist school of thought. If you would expand your horizons and connect existing theories and philosophies with MoQ you would glean alittle understanding about this. Have you even read Pragamatism by William James?
It really seems that your Philosophical reading begins and ends with Pirsigs work. -Ron ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:28:15 AM Subject: Re: [MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey Steve 16 Jan. you wrote: > I'm confused about what the pragmatic theory of truth is. James says > truth is a species of good and is that which is expedient in terms of > belief. Pierce says that truth is what is so whether you are I or > anyone else believes it. I think Pierce's take is what we usually mean > by truth. Rorty says that pragmatism doesn't really have a theory if > truth. Truth is just the property that all true startments have in > common and pragmatists don't have anything philosphically interesting > to say about truth beyond that. Regarding truth I wonder what the problem is? Need it any particular definition beyond the one given by the MOQ? The early Greek thinkers' search for eternal principle that ended with the greatest principle of them all TRUTH. In a SOL interpretation this was intellect emerging from the old mythological social level. So truth is a static intellectual pattern, the notion of a rock bottom reality that science and knowledge will uncover if the search goes on and on. Why not use the mighty tool we have been given by Pirsig instead of all these lesser thinkeres of whom some may have been on to something, but are left in the dust by RMP. And DMB who praises "Bob" but makes it a point not speaking about the MOQ only some Pragmatism that you are right in wondering what is. Bo 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/ 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/
