[WillBlake had asked] Do you believe there is a higher order, outside our experience, that is dictating what is good and what is bad?
[Arlo had written] Yikes and double-yikes! Questions like you're asking really make me doubt you read Pirsig at all. [WillBlake] Thanks for your well thought out response, Arlo. [Arlo] Seriously, you expect a question like that in a forum about the MOQ to deserve a better reply? You do understand what Pirsig wrote about "experience", Quality and "good and bad"? Your intent seems to be the same rhetorical trap that the English department tried to capture Pirsig in. "Because if Quality exists in the object, then you must explain just why scientific instruments are unable to detect it. You must suggest instruments that will detect it, or live with the explanation that instruments don’t detect it because your whole Quality concept, to put it politely, is a large pile of nonsense. On the other hand, if Quality is subjective, existing only in the observer, then this Quality that you make so much of is just a fancy name for whatever you like." (ZMM) Sorry I'm not going to bite on that. Take your initial question, asking if the difference between "good PC" and "bad PC" was subjective. If you take the letters PC out, you have the real question, is the difference between good and bad subjective. Because that's what I am talking about. Is THIS good, is THAT bad. "PC" is artificial term that adds nothing to the question. Do I believe there is a higher order that "dictates" this? No. I believe good and bad are contextual terms that derive from experience, and apply (intellectually) to a multi-leveled understanding of any particular activity system. 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/
