Thanks for that clarity Platt. Same old circular problem. Yes the "metaphysics of choice" is an intellectual pattern which sets itself up as being "outside" existing intellect ... by definition .... agreed. It's the word "meta" that breaks the loop, and allows us to move on, those for whom argument has some purpose, that is.
The rhetoric of "just another" and "dump" is for those whose point is simply "looking for an argument". Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Jun 2010 at 8:12, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > > Why would you even need more? If that (the SOL) is what he meant, he would > have > said so. Instead he said it "undermines the MOQ". > > [Platt] > Wrong. What Pirsig said "undermines" the MOQ is suggesting it is just another > product of S/O thinking -- which is exactly what those who dump the MOQ in > with > other metaphysics in the intellectual level do. When the MOQ gets dumped into > the intellectual level that way, it becomes "part of the system which it > opposes" and its "essence" is lost. "Remember that the central reality of the > MOQ is not an object or a subject or anything else. It is understood by direct > experience only and not by reasoning of any kind." So it doesn't > belong in the intellectual level where S/O reasoning rules. (All quotes from > Notes 132, 133 in LC) > > 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
