[Ham] > "static quality" is not static Static quality is static in the same sense a snapshot is. It doesn't entail a later snapshot will be identical to an earlier one.
[Ham] > unless the value we're talking about is > quantitative and can be measured on a scale or by objective analysis, it has > to be "realized" by a value-sensible agent, which is to say, a human being. > This rules out "value preferences" made by atoms and other inert objects. > It also repudiates value as the "primary "cause", inasmuch as man was not > present when the universe was created. Pirsig understands value so that humans are not the only value-sensible agents. You don't, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. Protagoras says "man is the measure of all things". But as you say, "man was not present when the universe was created". 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/
