"There must always be a discrepancy between concepts [static quality] and
reality [Dynamic Quality] -- Robert Pirsig
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>"Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not
>supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original
>experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept
>insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar
>cases—which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus
>altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things.
>Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so
>it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding
>these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects.
>This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature
>the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps
>woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted—but by incompetent
>hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a
correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model."
> — Friedrich Nietzsche
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>Compare and discuss ----Craig
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>I contrast.
>Pirsig is comparing the pre-conceptual with the post-conceptual.
>Nietzsche is comparing the concept with one of its instantiations (both
>post-conceptual).
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