Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Arlo previously] > In this sense, "common knowledge" is the intellectual level not the social > level. Calculus, an intellectual pattern of value, is not a social level > pattern. > > [Platt] > Calculus is hardly "common knowledge." > > [Arlo] > So what makes something "intellectual" is how few people understand it? How > about mathematics? Is that "common knowledge"? Does that make math a social > pattern?
Arithmetic is common knowledge. Topology is not. > > [Arlo previously] > Hardly, since Pirsig himself posits a "collective consciousness". > > [Platt] > Where? > > [Arlo] > In ZMM, which Pirsig calls the path to enlightenment. Have you the exact quote? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
