Hmmmm,
you may be right......to a certain extent.......
facetiousness aside,
of course, (I think), this was bound up with Pirsig's point : if the answer
to a question is neither yes nor no, then it must be "mu", which as I
understand it means "....unask the question"; but this does presuppose that
every question can be (or should be) framed in digital form. Given that even
neurons (our smallest 'switches') don't behave in this way, is the true test
of 'true-ness' really that one should be able to boil the matter in hand
down to yes/no?.
David, what was the url of that list?
cheers
ppl
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Prince" <deprince@bellsouth.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 31 October 2000 19:40
Subject: Re: MD Beyond Intellect
> I hadn't heard from anyone in a while. I was reading the
comp.ai.philosophy
> newsgroup and ran across the following exchange:
>
>
> "A judgement of truth is a binary decision. Most judgements are
> non-binary, having to do with accepting an uncertain value as fitting
> within a continuum up to a tolerance. Judgements of truth make no
> allowance for "uncertain value" and "up to a tolerance."
> -Neil Rickert
>
> "This is nearly true."
> -David Kinny
>
> and it set my head to spinning. The analog vs. the binary. The wave vs.
the
> particle. Monism vs. Dualism. It seems so much of western understanding is
> bound up in language, and when language fails so does understanding. Isn't
> science itself just a set of accepted words?
>
> Not one...not two. Who said that?
>
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