Michael, Exactly, why call it anything? calling it something lends to the illusion of assumption, of entity-ship, of seperation. Pirsig admits to having to sin against the idea that Quality is indefinable, that even calling it a name is going against what it means.
Quality is an abstract noun, because they follow the same rules of grammar as concrete nouns, often they are percieved of as concrete entities. -Ron ________________________________ From: Michael Poloukhine <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2009 11:13:22 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Faith/Skepticism > MP: But this only further disproves your own point: *Reflex* takes > you off the stove. > > To affirm that this reflex is based on Quality as opposed to > simple biological self > preservation takes faith because you can't *prove* its Quality > rather than > biological self preservational reflex. The latter is the only thing > you can actually > prove, the former is un-provable. You have evidence "for" the latter > but only evidence "of" the former. > > [Krimel] > Quality and "simple biological self preservation" are one and the > same thing. MP: then why bother calling it Quality? MP ---- "Don't believe everything you think." 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/
