Dear Struan,
You write 6/12 14:50:
"Horse makes three false accusations.
1) Struan rejects metaphysics.
...
I'm flying to Malta shortly so will not reply again. See you in a
few
months for the next installment."
Hoping for a reply (if only after a few months) I send this not
only via the list. I would drown in the other e-mails.
Having read often about your role as officially recognized (by
Pirsig, in a letter on the site) devil's advocate of this list, I
was very pleased to read e-mails from you. I am sorry that you
are leaving again within the time I need for my contributions.
Would you please at a convenient time write a bit about what your
metaphysics are? (If I understand you correctly, you must have
one, as you call the statement that you reject metaphysics
"false".)
I summarized my metaphysics 27/11 14:09 as:
"we experience (epistemology) quality (ontology) and seek Meaning
(meta-ethics)."
I summarized Pirsig's MoQ as: "we experience quality and only
history will show whether we chose to be a savior or a
degenerate. In other words: Pirsig's answer to 'How can we know
what we should do?' is 'You can't'."
Do you as a professional agree with my interpretation of
metaphysics as a system of ideas answering the questions 'How can
we know?', 'What can we know?' and 'How can we know what we
should do?'?
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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