Hi Matt, Be careful, according to dmb you are not following the rules he has set. It is impossible to debate such a thing since he keeps changing the rules to suit. The baggage is dmb's in my opinion. I know that when I take sides even those that I support do not like it for some reason. I guess that is why I am called a WOLF.
Mark > Matt said: > ... The residual difficulty with the rhetoric of radical empiricism is > this: if one has already rejected the goal of transcendence (in its Platonic > guise), then it is unclear to what purpose the idea of "purity" plays in any > remaining distinctions between reality or experience, on the one side, and > language, on the other. Experience as something pure that language muddies > is not something I can make sense of in non-Platonically transcendent ways. > Experience as "immediate" whereas language is "mediating" is not something I > can think of many uses for for nonrepresentationalists either. > > > dmb says: > Well, I don't know why you're hanging all this Platonic baggage on radical > empiricism. It hopelessly complicates any exchange of ideas on the topic and > yet it becomes unclear to you without that baggage. I honestly don't know > why you persist in this year after year. I don't understand how you can > still read this stuff as any kind of essentialism or representationalism or > how you can try to understand Pirsig's mysticism in terms of what the Pope > thinks. Honestly, it seems like you don't understand this stuff on purpose. > I suppose that has something to do with protecting Rorty but I don't know. > You're obviously a smart guy, but when it comes to this particular topic > you're just completely incorrigible. > > > > > > 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
