On 17 Feb 2002, at 15:21, Marco wrote:
> To summarize the situation, I had suggested these principles.
> Basic principle: Better is Better.
> 1st Principle: Something is better than Nothing
> 2nd Principle: Alive is better than Dead
> 3rd Principle: Together is better than Alone
> 4th Principle: Individuality is better than Mass
> While the first three found a wide agreement, the #4 has been more or
> less questioned by all. No one said anything about the basic one,
> which I suggest here before the others, as historically in my opinion
> always existed and will always exist.
Hi Marco and Platt
In the previous thread I suggested the S/O divide for q-intellect (to
no great surprise as 3WD said :) A "better than" version of this will
naturally be: OBJECTIVITY IS BETTER THAN SUBJECTIVITY. And
really, can this enormous value increment be ignored? Platt is the
only one who sees it with his
> For the 4th level I suggest:
> 4. Better thinking than feeling
> . . . based on Pirsig's criteria for the indispensable intellectual
> pattern of truth--"logical consistency, agreement with experience, and economy
> of explanation." Emotions need not apply.
I gladly give credit to Platt for launching this before my own (his
from 11 Feb.) but hope that he sees the connection with my age
old campaign for exactly this definition of q-intellect ... among
other in the Emotion (social) vs Reason (intellectual) form.
Bo
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