[DMB] Patterns RATHER than truth? Since Pirsig defines pragmatic truth as a static intellectual pattern, this claim is contradictory nonsense. "Truth is a static intellectual pattern within a larger entity called Quality."
[Arlo] Right. Would you describe 'truths' as high-Quality intellectual patterns? I'm thinking along the lines of: the greater the explanatory power, the greater the affordances to activity, the greater the cohesion with experience, all these things which are evaluative measures of intellectual Quality seem linked to the notion of pragmatic truth. For example, the flat-earth theory is an intellectual pattern, but it is a low-quality intellectual pattern because it lacks the explanatory power, affordances (such as travel, improved telecommunications, weather predicting, etc.) that an ellispoid-earth theory offers. 'Truth', seems to me, to be good and simple way to say 'high-quality intellectual pattern of value', and that evaluation rests on pragmatic-experiential cohesion. Does this gel with what you are saying? [DMB] So, when Marsha says she "has nothing to say about truth" and when she says "the idea of truth does not interest me"... [Arlo] ... she's saying she "has nothing to say about high-quality intellectual patterns" or "the idea of high-quality intellectual patterns does not interest me"? 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
