Hey Dave,
DMB said:
There's nothing wrong with dissolving bad questions. What concerns
me is your sincere and earnest attempt to avoid accidentally giving
answers to old riddles. As I understand it, you're reading Pirsig's
claims through the lens of Rorty's particular strain of anti-Platonism
and anti-representationalism. By doing so the key terms are put into
a different context, where they have a very different meaning.
Matt:
Well, so better put is not that my avoidance is what concerns you,
but that I'm getting Pirsig wrong (which occurs in my plan of
avoidance, as it were). Because the goal of any useful
recontextualization is that you understand the difference between the
"before" and "after" picture and can chart the differences (and rate
relevancy and the like).
I try and keep an eye on those differences, and I understand that you
think I fail in producing a picture of Pirsig that Pirsig is either
committed to keeping (in those cases where my work is intended as
criticism) or would see himself in (in those cases where I repaint
Pirsig's picure for my own constructive purposes). But I don't think
it's the case that I'm not paying attention as well as I can.
Matt
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