Beautiful. This is EXACTLY what I've been attempting to argue.
- Matt
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>From: diana@hongkong.com
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD BOUNCE moq_focus@venus.co.uk: Approval required:
>Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2000, 7:17 PM
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> Everyone
>
> Pirsig's many sets of truth idea, which he expounds in chapter 8
> is about profound truths about the nature of reality - metaphysical
> truths, not conflicting values. Not that there isn't such a thing
> as conflicting values, but that isn't what he's getting at when
> he talks about truths.
>
> David's example about infidelity is something that anyone of
> any culture can understand. It doesn't take a new metaphysical
> paradigm to explain it and the SOM doesn't deny conflicting
> values, even if it doesn't actually call them that. And the fact
> that Clinton won't be president next year doesn't need a new
> paradigm either. The SOM doesn't deny that things change
> over time.
>
> Pirsig introduces the idea specifically to show that the MOQ
> doesn't invalidate the SOM. He talks about different "constructions
> of things", different "sets of truths", different "intellectual
> realities" and different "intellectual patterns for interpreting
> reality". He doesn't actually use the phrase "many truths" that
> I can find (pls point it out if he does). He offers the SOM as
> one example of a set of truths and the MOQ as another example.
> And he implies that there may be other sets which may also be
> valid.
>
> The kind of truth that he's talking about is metaphysical truths
> about what things exist, what is their nature and relationship.
> Is time an arrow or a cycle? Are things divided or separate?
> Do we have free will or not? Is it a truth that all things should
> realize their true nature? And it's also the truth that we should
> transcend our true nature? Yes, that's a contradiction but both
> are truths in a real and profound sense.
>
> I think Platt's "Catches" if they're still around, might have
> some more examples of paradoxical truths.
>
> Diana
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