On Apr 6, 2013, at 12:44 PM, david buchanan wrote:
> dmb:
> Pirsig's "ghost" story is not intended to undermine his own conception of
> intellectual static patterns, of course. His aim is to undermine the "law of
> gravity" insofar as it is conceived as an eternal feature of the one only
> objective reality. When it is taken like that, then there is only one
> exclusive truth about gravity and Newton was the guy who discovered what was
> always there. I
Marsha:
Oh really? Just the law of gravity?
``Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, of
mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is
a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention. The
world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It's all a
ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world
we live in. It's run by ghosts. We see what we see because these ghosts show it
to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and
Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very
good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices
of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more
ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.''
(RMP, 'ZAMM', Chapter 3)
Marsha:
How about "It's all a ghost,...". Isn't the law of non-contradiciton one of
the laws of logic? "Ghosts and more ghosts."
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