On 12/17/10 12:29 PM, "Jan-Anders" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wasn't kidding. Neither dicking. > > My example was meant to show how quality can be defined as an event by > using one of the basic elements of language. The concept of it. > > What IT is. It as an event is defining itself as an event of two > letters, in the right order, has a value when its used. The it event is > realized. As quality is an event (a process with time included) it > shouldn't be about reality but realization. A verb and not a noun. Like in Merriam Websters online eighth definition of quality? "8. the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes IT fundamentally unlike any other sensation" > I can't see anywhere in RMP's writing that Quality should be observed by > something that is NOT an event, or activity. It takes an event to > observe and define an event. [Pirsig's final Lila words] Good as a noun rather than an adjective is all the Metaphysics of Quality is about. Of course, the ultimate Quality isn't a noun or an adjective or anything else definable,(such as a verb) but if you had to reduce the whole Metaphysics of Quality to a single sentence, that would be it. (a noun) Dave 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
