On 21 Sep 2009 at 17:14, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > Language is fundamentally recursive, and hence paradox laden.
Then that statement is fundamentally recursive and paradox laden, i.e., profoundly incoherent. > Or you could maybe fault that profoundly incoherent Pirsig for saying > "Quality is undefinable", thus defining Quality. Thanks for making my point because Pirsig went on to say: "Since a metaphysics is essentially a kind of dialectical definition and since Quality is essentially outside definition, this means that a "Metaphysics of Quality" is essentially a contradiction in terms, a logical absurdity." (Lila, 5) If anyone wonders why the MOQ remains academically stillborn this admission from Pirsig is probably the reason. Postmodern thinking (It's a fact there are no facts.) is passe in the academy although there are still a few hangers-on. Logic has regained respect in most classrooms, thank goodness. > Of course, Pirsig and other "postmodern minds" would simply say "... > INCLUDING this statement!" or make a nod to the incomplete-recursive > nature of language as being, as Zeno found, always present. There he goes again -- "always present" -- incomplete and recursive, or so he says, contradicting himself. Ah, well . . . what's the use? 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/
