Hi Clarke
I haven't got a copy of ZAMM on me but there is a section where the
narrator is at DeWeese's party and analysing the instructions for a
rotisserie where he recalls a Japanese motorcycle repair manual which stated
that "...motorcycle repair require's great peace of mind".This statement,
along with a practical explanation of inductive, deductive reasoning and
scientific method have helped me and my colleague's save my company an awful
lot of time and money.
The views on different types of mechanics and their approaches to the
work are of equal importance. Further, we find views where whilst teaching a
Rhetoric course the definition of quality comes up and leads Phaedrus to
start tying these threads into a coherent web, simultaneously proving to his
students that they allready know what quality is in prose,then illustrating
this in a comparative fashion.
For an academic institution to take a book seriously it doesn't have to
have been around forever and meet with peer review, it can be enough to let
the reader take time to examine his/her motivations/approaches/goals for
study etc and make sure they tie in with quality.
-----Original Message-----
From: Enliten3@aol.com [mailto:Enliten3@aol.com]
Sent: 16 May 2001 14:27
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Subject: Re: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
ZAMM was a required text for one of my Poli Sci classes at the University of
New Orleans in 1976. I didn't consider at the time to find out how it
became
so. It may have been a particular quirk of the Professor.
Clarke
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