Marsha said:
Protagoras: “Man is the measure of all things.”, or as Lila might have
interpreted it ‘All beliefs are true if you believe them.’
dmb says:
Marsha think all beliefs are true if you believe them, and yet she has no idea
why anyone would call her a relativist or why anyone would object to her
interpretation of truth.
Is it just me or is that a silly, silly, vacuous thing to say? Doesn't Pirsig
say that beliefs are true to the extent that they work AS beliefs? Yes, and
James's pragmatism will fill in the details of what that means for anyone who's
interested in knowing about truth as "a species of the good". Ideas only become
true in experience, when they are put to work in reality. And that's where our
beliefs are wedged and controlled by the sensible flux (DQ) and the conceptual
order (sq). That's what our truths have to answer to and beliefs are certainly
not true just because they are believed. Without action, beliefs are literally
meaningless.
I mean, try ACTING on the belief that all beliefs are true. And then just watch
as disaster unfolds. You will almost certainly crash and burn, maybe even
literally.
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