Conceded,Ian. A typical high school aptitude circa 1953 and Pirsigs work. You know, the ideals of linear progress were still going strong then, perhaps we should give the old timer a bit of a break, but that would be condescending. ;-) -Ron
________________________________ From: Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 10:23:52 AM Subject: Re: [MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey Ron, Bo, To be fair, Pirsig's work backed by a little "Math & Logic 101" maybe. Ian On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > 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/
