Hi Jonathan
> My understanding of the MoQ is that both "accident" and "purpose" are
> platypus words.
I have the impression that there is the risk it becomes too easy to
configure as "platypus" every thing we can't agree upon. When Pirsig
destroys the Platypus "causation" for example, he replaces "A causes B"
with "B values precondition A" . The same goes for "matter" replaced by
"inorganic pattern of value" and so on.
So, I ask you how do you replace purpose from the sentence:
"It is my purpose to go home"
and accident from the sentence:
"By accident I met an old friend"
bye
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan B. Marder" <jonathan.marder@newmail.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: MD Accidentally on purpose
> Hi Platt, Marco and all,
>
> PLATT to MARCO:
> Your position seems to be "It gets better accidentally on purpose."
> Where have I gone wrong?
>
> Platt, I think you have hit the nail on the head. That is one of the
> best one-liners I have seen in months, and I say this in all
> seriousness.
>
> My understanding of the MoQ is that both "accident" and "purpose" are
> platypus words. The reason avid determinists argue with
> anti-determinists is that the former don't accept that anything is an
> accident, while anti-determinists deny causative purpose.
>
> Jonathan
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