True ideas are those that we can assimilate
validate
corroborate
and verify.
False ideas are those we can not.
truth happens to an idea.
"Primarily, and on a common sense level, the truth of a state of mind
means this function of a leading that is worth while."
Ron:
The above is by William James, and I think this is a well stated appraisel
in fact, Aristotle makes a similar appraisel adding that the act of this pursuit
the act of intelligibility is predicated on a betterness.
This betterness is pleasurable and satisfying it is wonder-ful.
In the spirit of the state of wonder
is a lover of wisdom
the pantheon housing the very best ideas
the ones with the highest human values.
Arisitotle went so far as to name this driving feeling of wonder
as divine.
I believe these ideas really help inform one trying to understand what
B.Pirsig is talking about with the idea of Quality.
It also greatly helps to super-impose the problem of the many and the one
on top of static and dynamic Quality. Static being the many and dynamic the one.
If Bob has'nt read "Metaphysics" in a while, I suggest book Lambda.
Also I suggest reading the conclusions Aristotle came to regarding
the one and the many.
In his day, it seemed, Aristotle took the problem of the "one and the many"
much the same way Bob Pirsig took the problem of "subject and object."
One might even say they are the same problem.
The many ways to interpet and understand one experience.
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