Ant, Thanks Ant. The only point I was trying to make is both James and Pirsig use the words dynamic/static to illustrate the split between reality and what we think we know about reality, our hypotheses. And what we think know about reality, and the words we use to describe it, while stable patterns are luckily not fixed and eternal.
The hypothesis of "Newtonian mechanics, ie physical movement" while imperfect still allows satellites to be launched into space in a stable and predicable manner and is nothing if not, little "d", dynamic. The hypothesis of a "World of the Buddhas viewpoint" I know nothing about and therefore cannot comment on except to say I am leery of the concept of privileged views, mystic, intellectual, or otherwise. Cheers, Dave On 2/21/13 3:41 PM, "Ant McWatt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dave Thomas said to Dave Buchanan, February 20th: > > > All your ranting to about this issue is what James characterizes as > "vicious intellectualism." Because if "static patterns of value" or > "deductions" change, it is misleading or confusing to "characterized [them] > by a fixed or stationary condition", "static." Additionally it is Pirsig's > error not Marsha's. > > That was all I was trying to establish. > > > Ant McWatt comments: > > Dave, > > Pirsig is usually quite careful in our PhD correspondence (which Marsha enjoys > quoting here) to prefix his (occasional) use of the Dynamic, World of the > Buddhas viewpoint of the MOQ. As I was trying to say at the beginning of this > thread, if you don't do that, it will lead to confusion especially for > contributors only familiar with ZMM and LILA (two texts nearly exclusively > written from the static, everyday world perspective). > > Regarding the issue of stable/static, the benefit of the term "stable" is that > it avoids connotations of Newtonian mechanics i.e. physical movement. Of > course, any metaphysical term is going to be a compromise of some sort so - as > a philosopher at least - I don't think Pirsig is in error with anything > conceptual here. > > Hope that helps, > > Anthony > > > > > . > > > > 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 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
