What about 'provisionally' or 'provisionals'? Would you be happy with that word instead?
"One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual explanation of things with the knowledge that if the past is any guide to the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until something better comes along." - Lila Because I ran a search on Lila for the word 'hypothetical' and it isn't mentioned once... I think there's a good reason why Pirsig didn't use the word hypothetically in his sentence above. That reason, I think, is that there's an important difference between the two words… Here's what the dictionary says: Provisional - "subject to further confirmation; for the time being: the film, provisionally entitled Skin, is due to be released next year." Hypothetical - "supposed but not necessarily real or true. Logic - denoting or containing a proposition of the logical form if p then q ." In the first instance - provisional is about 'USING something until something else - better - may come along'. Hypothetical is about PROPOSING or SUPPOSING something REGARDLESS of whether we use it or how good it is. In other words 'Hypothetical' is REGARDLESS of the value of something and whether we use it or not. It is about PROPOSING something - not provisionally USING something like the word provisional suggests. So one of these words acknowledges the quality of something while the other is before we judge the quality of something. Can you see that difference between the two words at least? On 22/05/2013, at 12:07 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Since the MoQ has conceptualizations as useful fictions, I think it is in > agreement with RMP. I certainly do not think he'd object. > > > > On May 21, 2013, at 7:31 AM, David Harding <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can't answer a question? It's not abstract - it's just a question about >> whether you think your view of static patterns of value as 'hypothetical' is >> in line with what Pirsig has written about them? It's about what you think >> not abstract. >> >> On 21/05/2013, at 9:16 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> RMP has said many things about static patterns of value, I don't see how I >>> can offer a specific answer to such a general, abstract question, so I >>> won't. >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 21, 2013, at 6:29 AM, David Harding <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Marsha, >>>> >>>> Do you consider this in line with what Pirsig has said about static >>>> patterns of value? >>>> >>>> On 21/05/2013, at 7:17 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> dmb, >>>>> >>>>> On May 20, 2013, at 8:38 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> dmb quotes RMP: >>>>>> "...the MOQ does not insist on a single exclusive truth. >>>>> >>>>> Okay, you, dmb, consider static patterns of value to represent truths. I >>>>> consider static patterns of value to represent hypotheticals. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Marsha >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>> 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 > 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
