Hi Mark, I better add that within the MoQ static patterns (objects of knowledge) may be ranked by what they value: inorganic, biological, social or intellectual.
Marsha On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:40 AM, MarshaV wrote: Hi Mark, For me the MoQ is ontologically indeterminate (DQ), and epistemologically relativistic (sq), though "we can perceive some [patterns] to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result our history and current patterns of values." Marsha On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:09 AM, 118 wrote: > Hi Marsha, > > Yes, this is the Western approach. Everything must be > compartmentalized. Thank you Aristotle!? > > Ontology/epistemology can be analogized to DQ/SQ. > > If we view knowledge as that which we create, which is appropriate to > MoQ (see "ghosts of reason"), then the limits of knowledge are without > boundary. The nature is the human spirit (DQ), the method is logic, > and the origin is Quality (DQ/SQ). > > This is how Quality is used to provide answers. Pirsig, of course, > has many such examples, which is what Lila is all about. It is a > shame that some see Lila as a manifesto of some sort. The examples > are just that, not to be taken as "truth". Lila teaches how to use > Quality to solve problems. It was never meant as dogma, Pirsig is too > smart for that. However, we get the preachers who read from the "good > book" and tell us all to obey what is written. There was a prophet > about 600 years after Christ who said the same thing. > > I am sure that Pirsig is more than a little disappointed at the turn > Quality has taken. He is probably also a bit ashamed at where this > forum has gone. His disciple has gone astray. Well it happens to the > best of them. His quest for fame has done exactly what he predicted > it would. > > Mark > > On Dec 3, 2012, at 12:59 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> e·pis·te·mol·o·gy >> >> noun >> a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and >> limits of human knowledge. >> >> >> >> If, if, if ... >> > ___ 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
