Ian to DMB: I think Matt (and gav and others) are right though ... that there is an important style difference between "professional philosophy" on the one hand, trying to situate these arguments in the existing (US Pragmatist) canon, and those of us amateurs on the other who are simply comfortable with the obvious facts, enough to get with worrying about how best to apply them to real life beyond professional philsophy.
Andre: Does the 'style difference between 'profesional philosophy' and 'us amateurs' (trying to apply the 'obvious facts' [obvious to whom I wonder]) make for this difficulty of applying them to 'real life'? Or has professional philosophy moved so much away from 'real life' that the 'style difference' reflects this and that it therefore doesn't really matter/or beyond comprehension...to 'us amateurs? Or how does this compare with Pirsig's stance that if you do not create a metaphysics/ philosophy that in some ways makes for a better world then forget it (other than retaining some sort of interest within philosophical academia)? Just interested. Andre 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/md/archives.html
