Hello everyone

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:35 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Dan Glover wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Marsha said:
>>> ...at the moment, I think the best answer would be: 
>>> all-that-is-opposite-from-non-gravitation, and I sometimes visualize the 
>>> pattern as a cloud of probability.
>>>
>>> dmb:
>>>
>>> "Definitions are the FOUNDATION of reason. You can't reason without them." 
>>> (Emphasis is Pirsig's. ZAMM, page 214.)
>>>
>>> "A metaphysics must be divisible, definable and knowable, or there isn't 
>>> any metaphysics." (Pirsig in Lila, page 64.)
>>
>> Dan:
>>
>> Exactly. Come on, Marsha and Mark. If you want to know what
>> gravitation is, look it up. Or even better, try reading ZMM... or
>> re-reading it, or whatever it takes to get the ideas contained there
>> to sink in.
>>
>> Good God almighty...
>>
>> Dan
>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> There are times when RMP uses words and concepts that go beyond the 
> dictionary definition,
> and dictionaries differ.  for instance there are words in German that do not 
> have an equivalent
> in English.

Dan:

Yes, but those German words have to be defined in some fashion,
otherwise they're just gibberish. There may not be an equivalent
English word, but there are definitions none the less.

>
> Good Goddess almighty...

Yes, I like her too!

Dan


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