Hi DMB, Yeah, sometimes I stick my foot in it. I apologize for the remark. The clock is ticking and I gotta get outta here. I'll have to get back to you on the James thing. :)
Have a good day DMB, Mary > > Mary said: > ... and yes, DMB, I find James alternative lacking and incomplete. > > dmb says: > > Why? I mean, could you be more specific? > > > > Mary said: > > ... And by the way, for DMB, and Ant (whom I know from way back), and > Matt, and Steve's benefit, there are those of us who have a great deal > of formal education (Engineering in my case) who do not have an > academic level knowledge of philosophy, so you can save the > supercilious attitude for those who failed to finish high school. > > > > dmb says: > > Yea but I can disagree without being supercilious, right? And maybe > it's a moral failing on my part, but when people say dumb things I > think it's okay to call a spade a spade. Conversation helps keep us > honest that way, you know? I'm just talking in general here, I don't > think you said anything that merits a haughty scolding or whatever and > I assume you can be persuaded by reason. > > But I have to say that your dismissal of James is hard to understand. > Pirsig equates his MOQ with James's thought, especially on the issue of > replacing subject-object metaphysics with a Quality metaphysics. Since > they are identical in this respect, I don't see how it can make any > sense to accept one and reject the other. > 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
