Just as I thought. Pirsig's terminology is unique, borne of necessity from his new, original philosophy. If others want to engage in philosophology while swishing old tea in their cups, so be it. I prefer a fresh brew.
Platt On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:06 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote: > > Platt said to dmb: > Perhaps you will see fit to save us the time and trouble of trying to find > philosophers, postmodern or otherwise, who use the specific terms > "intellectual level" and "subject-object metaphysics" in their texts by > furnishing us a few quotes. I for one would appreciate it. > > Ron replied: > Hey Platt, Ever here of a thesaurus? See, there is this crazy notion that > different words can have the same meaning. > > > dmb says: > > That's exactly what I was thinking, Ron. Thanks. Not only is it > unreasonable to ask not just for the same ideas but the same ideas in > exactly the same terms Pirsig uses, it is also unreasonable to ask for such > evidence because I've already provided it. Many times. Most recently I > referred the James quote at the end of chapter 29 in Lila. There we see that > James not only attacks subject and objects IN THOSE TERMS and refers to them > as secondary and conceptual, but he also takes up the terms "static" and > "dynamic". I've also quoted from the text books assigned at the University > where they say the same things about Dewey's radical empiricism, wherein his > notion of experience can't rightly be understood in terms of subjects and > objects. Again the philosophers reject that premise in those terms that > Platt so unreasonably demands. > > If that fails to convince, then I really don't know what would. And that's > why I'm not too interested in discussing it, least of all with people who > have such unreasonable, unmovable opinions. > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ > 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/
