Dmb, Since you want an actual question, how do you deal with this quote, about truth being relative, from the MoQ textbook?
Anthony: “Intellectual values include truth, justice, freedom, democracy and, trial by jury. It’s worth noting that the MOQ follows a pragmatic notion of truth so truth is seen as relative in his system while Quality is seen as absolute. In consequence, the truth is defined as the highest quality intellectual explanation at a given time." RMP: If the past is any guide to the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until something better comes along. One can then examine intellectual realities the same way he examines paintings in an art gallery, not with an effort to find out which one is the ‘real’ painting, but simply to enjoy and keep those that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of values. (Pirsig, 1991, p.103)” (McWatt,Anthony, 'AN INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT PIRSIG’S METAPHYSICS OF QUALITY' 2005, p.147) Marsha On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:09 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > > Steve said: > It seems that dmb's argument is with Ant McWatt as much as it is with you > though for some reason he hasn't acknowledged that fact. dmb will, as always, > have a tough time articulating what particular sort of relativism--some > dangerous sort?--that applies to you but not equally well to James and Pirsig. > > dmb says: > I've responded to the quote from Ant several times already, so that > "argument" has been more than just acknowledged. > > And if there is something in particular you'd like me to "articulate", then > feel free to ask an actual question. > > ___ 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
