Andre, And surely you must have guessed that since they were proposed as hypothetically from Sam Harris, they were NOT meant to represent someone who was familiar with the MoQ. Since your paper was titled 'An Open Letter by Andre Broersen to Sam Harris' I wondered how you would explain these issues to him. The questions represent issues raised in your paper addressed to him, someone unfamiliar with the MoQ. Otherwise what is the value of writing a paper addressed to him? So again:
Let's say Sam Harris has read your 'An Open Letter by Andre Broersen to Sam Harris', he might ask: You have categorized 'science' as an intellectual static pattern of value, but not explained what that means. 'Science' is a name, a designator, a label; what makes 'science' an intellectual pattern? How do I differentiate an intellectual pattern from a social pattern? How do I differentiate 'science' as an intellectual pattern from a social pattern? Do you tell him that 'science' is an intellectual pattern because you, Andre, say so? Or do you tell him 'science' is an intellectual pattern because Mr. Pirsig says so? Or do tell him 'science' is an intellectual pattern because the cultural glasses say so? Or what? Marsha On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Andre Broersen wrote: > Marsha to Andre: > > Btw, have you come up with an answer to the hypothetical questions I posed > from Sam Harris concerning the difference between the Intellectual Level and > Social Level? > > Do you tell him that 'science' is an intellectual pattern because you, Andre, > say so? Or do tell him 'science' is an intellectual pattern because Mr. > Pirsig says so? Or do tell him 'science' is an intellectual pattern because > the cultural glasses say so? Or what? > > Andre: > When you originally asked me this 'hypothetical' question I thought you were > joking. I thought: "Surely Marsha has read ZMM. Surely she has read LILA. > Surely she has read Anthony's PhD. Surely she knows about the basic framework > of the MOQ. I mean, these are the basics we bring with us to discuss Pirsig's > MOQ. Participation on this discuss is predicated upon having at least read > ZMM and LILA. > > In your case at least I guess I am mistaken. You must have slithered in from > under the qualifier fence. > > I do not take you seriously Marsha and I distrust your motivation for asking > the question in the first place. > > Carry on with your soliloquize by all means but don't ask me silly > hypothetical questions. > > > > 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
