On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:34 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Platt] > Well Ian, if you find a way intellect can avoid paradox or infinite > regress... > > [Arlo] > Symbolic representations of "reality" are inherently self-referential. This > is > not something that can be overcome, it is just the way it is. The eye > cannot > see itself, but positing an endless chain of eyes-seeing-eyes is just a > fool's > view. > Platt Thus intellect us limited, as I said and Pirsig elaborated. > Phædrus says, "All this is just an analogy." ... Of course it's an analogy. > Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that. That's why > the > Chairman missed that statement of Socrates. Phædrus has caught it and > remembered it, because if Socrates hadn't stated it he wouldn't have been > telling the "Truth." (ZMM) > > Einstein, Goebels, Magritte, Escher, Pirsig, Hofstadter, Campbell, the Zen > masters... they all saw this. Its a shame you do not. > > > 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
