Hi DMB,
> It would be nice if you unpacked your paragraph about the hypothetical > mystic. I think there is something interesting in there but I don't quite > follow the argument. I mean, the idea of using mysticism to save the > correspondence theory is a pretty jarring idea. Pirisg says does the opposite > of that and the mystical experience itself would be conceived as > non-conceptual so that we could call it unmediated experience but not > unmediated knowledge. This would be related to Quality or pure experience > more than the pragmatic theory of truth, however, and it's not the sort of > thing that can be used as evidence for propositional sentences. Anyway, > here's the unpackworthy paragraph: Steve: I can't think of how else to say it. The argument is from around page 175 in The End of Faith. 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
