Pirsig said in the Baggini Interview: The alternative to “The Metaphysics of Quality says,” would be “I, Robert Pirsig, says,” and that repeated many times sounds worse to me...If the term, “static” is being used here as it is used by the Metaphysics of Quality itself, then the answer is, “All metaphysical systems are static intellectual patterns. There isn't any other kind of metaphysics.” This is so because the MOQ describes intellect itself as a set of static patterns.
Matt: Yes, thank you, Steve. That is the exact place I was thinking of when I talked about the MoQ being simply a rhetorical strategy (as they all must, since it's all rhetoric, right everyone?). Personally, it would sound worse if he had said, "I say, I say, I say" all the time, but that's not a real explanation of why he chose that strategy, because God help us if Pirsig were really so incompetent a writer that he couldn't figure out any _other_ way to avoid saying "I, I, I". The comment about metaphysical systems is interesting, too. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 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/
