Hi David and All, IMHO Pirsig accepted that pragmatism "unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and sets each to work" and DQ/SQ reality is the useful metaphysical structure.
The fly in the ointment becomes what is my experience of indefinable reality? A logical solution to that question is that DQ, indefinable reality, is observable as individualized emotional experience preceding definable common intellectual experience. Emotions are individualized and indefinable DQ. The expression of individualized, emotional, indefinable reality is through the use of the logical vehicles, analogy and metaphor. Hello metaphysics! Joe On 9/24/12 12:11 PM, "david buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote: > But if you follow the pragmatic method, you cannot look on any such word as > closing your quest. You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, > set it at work within the stream of your experience. It appears less as a > solution, then, than as a program for more work, and more particularly as an > indication of the ways in which existing realities may be changed. > Theories thus become instruments, not answers to enigmas, in which we can > rest. We don¹t lie back upon them, we move forward, and, on occasion, make > nature over again by their aid. Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, > limbers them up and sets each one at work." -- William James, Pragmatism > 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
