> On May 7, 2014, at 10:54 PM, david <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Arlo said:
> ...I should note that this short article (Alfredi Ruiz, Theoretical Bases of
> the Post-Rationalist Approach) also calls for an ontological and an
> epistomological approach to experience, in much the same way that Paul Turner
> approached describing two approaches to Pirsig's MOQ. Consider too that Ruiz
> writes, "The first dimension is immediate experience. Like what occurs in
> other animals, the experience of living, of feeling alive, is something with
> simply occurs to us, something we can not decide. The other dimension is
> explanation." Sounds very Dynamic/static, doesn't it?
>
>
> dmb says:
> A little tanget: remember Paul Turner's work on the "tetralemma" (don't know
> how that's spelled), that strange Buddhist logic? I found a little piece that
> explains the background and context in which in makes tons of sense. Had a
> hunch that there was something behind it that I did not know about and - damn
> - that old hunch finally found a place to land when I saw this article...
>
> "Let’s start by turning back the clock. It is India in the fifth century BCE,
> the age of the historical Buddha, and a rather peculiar principle of
> reasoning appears to be in general use. This principle is called the
> catuskoti, meaning ‘four corners’. It insists that there are four
> possibilities regarding any statement: it might be true (and true only),
> false (and false only), both true and false, or neither true nor false."
>
> http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/logic-of-buddhist-philosophy/
>
> Ron:
Interestingly enough, Aristotle stated
Pragmatically, that if a statement is both true and false or neither true nor
false it is generally a meaningless statement.
If a statement is both there is a conflict of context of meaning.
>
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