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On Oct 3, 2010, at 10:23 AM, X Acto wrote:
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> True ideas are those that we can assimilate
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> validate
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> corroborate
> and verify.
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> False ideas are those we can not.
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> truth happens to an idea.
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> "Primarily, and on a common sense level, the truth of a state of mind
> means this function of a leading that is worth while."
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> 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.
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> In the spirit of the state of wonder
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> is a lover of wisdom
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> the pantheon housing the very best ideas
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> the ones with the highest human values.
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> Arisitotle went so far as to name this driving feeling of wonder
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> as divine.
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> I believe these ideas really help inform one trying to understand what
> B.Pirsig is talking about with the idea of Quality.
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> 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.
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> 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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