Pirsig makes the distinction between two types of EXPERIENCE.
Dynamic experience (hot stove) Static experience (oaths)
HOW they are interpreted is less important than the primacy
of the ordering in context to the statement that dynamic experience
is more "empirical".
"The Metaphysics of Quality subscribes to what is called empiricism. It claims
that all legitimate human knowledge arises from the senses or by thinking about
what the senses provide."
A reasonable interpetation may be:
Dynamic experience arises from the senses, Static experience, by thinking
about what the senses provide.
Again, in the context of the term "empirical" the primacy of the dynamic
holds the meaning in regard to being "more" empirical than a subject
object interpretaion based on a static intellectual assumption of a physically
objective starting point. In other words value is more emprical than objective
reality.
"There's a principle in physics that if a thing can't be distinguished from
anything else it doesn't exist. To this the Metaphysics of Quality adds a
second principle: if a thing has no value it isn't distinguished from anything
else. Then, putting the two together, a thing that has no value does not exist.
The thing has not created the value. The value has created the thing. When
it is seen that value is the front edge of experience, there is no problem
for empiricists here. It simply restates the empiricists' belief that
experience is the starting point of all reality. The only problem is for
a subject-object metaphysics that calls itself empiricism."
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