On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Matt Kundert <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Well, I simply spoke as someone that's read a reasonable amount of Fish's > writings. So, not "anybody's guess," because I'm guessing my guesstimation > is a little more like, as they say, an educated guess. > Platt Since I too have read a reasonable amount of Fish's writings I guess my educated guess is as good as anybody's educated guess. > > And your quote from Pirsig is perfect: "universal" comes from "complete > agreement," which is no Platonic method, and gives you no power to turn the > universalness of Quality into a weapon. Because as soon as "agreement" is > broken, so does any power in the saying that it is a "universal source" > evaporate. Platt I read it differently. "Complete agreement" describes people's understanding of what the word "quality" means. Quality's as a "universal source of things" is an axiom of the MOQ. Wherever did get the idea that somehow I want turn Quality into a "weapon"? How would that even be possible? > > > > "Quality, on which there is complete agreement, is a universal source of > > things." (Lila, 6) > > > > What Fish really "meant by 'first principle' " is anybody's guess. > > > > Platt > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_1 > 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 > 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
