Gotcha... Thanks.
On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Steven Peterson wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > Marsha: >> Can I venture an analogy. When one takes off the cultural glasses >> they are cleaned to various degrees depending on intensity of the >> experience of having them off. Then when one puts them back on, >> they are altered by being cleaner and producing a clearer view. > > Steve: > This is the usual interpretation of ocular metaphors for knowledge as > well as for Enlightenment, but it is metaphors such as this for what > knowledge is like that pragmatists eschew. Pragmatists want to get > philosophers to stop describing knowledge as seeing clearly, as seeing > things for what they really are, of gettig our thoughts in proper > correspondence with things. Instead they want to substitute the notion > of knowledge of X as having the power to use X and to put X in to > relation with Ys. That is why I have trouble seeing Pirsig as a good > pragmatist in such passages as the cultural glasses one where > knowledge seems to be described as seeing things for what they REALLY > are beyond the mere appearances of the views filtered through various > lenses. I am sure that that is no problem at all for you, but dmb > wants to read Pirsig as a pragmatist. That means he wants to avoid > reading him in such a way as your analogy above suggests. I tend to > agree with your interpretation and see Pirsig as not completely > compatible with pragmatism (for better or worse) as a consequence of > that interpretation. > > Best, > Steve ___ 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
