Dave logged his repeated complaint that I don't understand James, and I logged my typical response (a shrug that I still don't get it), but somehow the back and forth continues on interminably way past the point at which either of us represent ourselves very well. Since I have nothing new to say about James, or this so-called debate/disagreement between Dave and I, I wanted to simply reference the last interesting thing I did think of to say, contained in a post at my site (in case anyone was interested in our nattering):
http://pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/2010/01/discussion-with-dave-buchanan.html But, once again in case people don't understand, I am confessing that I am not smart enough to understand Dave's representation of James and radical empiricism. I am also not professional enough to research and prepare my philosophical opinions with a respectable amount of work to be able to defend them in the public arena against criticism. I am, in that sense, an amateur. I am a poseur. My sentences may seem to have the affectation of a smarter, academic person, but it is all an act, a show, a grand illusion that I never meant to create, so much as I started to unconsciously emulate the writing of people I read. The irony is how much the academic affectation annoys people here. The tragedy is that I know not how else to compose myself. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/210850553/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/md/archives.html
