[Platt] Thanks. I think I get the picture. It's a fairly static system of establishing belief. But, as Pirsig pointed out, its saving grace is willingness to change in the light of new evidence, although that's sometimes tough to do. At the bottom of it all is trust in those who produce the empirical data who, being
human, may have hidden agendas. One can wonder what's in it for them. [Krimel] I don't think this is all that static and I think the various systems that involve these approach are set up to allow dynamic answers to emerge from the process. Of course humans have agenda's hidden or otherwise but in most cases of honest inquiry the idea is to either bring those agendas to light so as to factor them into the process or to control for whatever influence they might have. Science for example is inherently skeptical in is approach and it treats its findings provisionally. I think you on the other hand are suggesting that because people have agendas, they must be self serving and honest inquiry is not possible. This may not be what you think or what you are suggesting but if it is I think it moves past skepticism into cynicism. 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
