Sq: Hi Platt,
Platt: Ideas you present that Pirsig says nothing about.
Aesthetic axis
Biconditional
Contextualization
Final vocabularies
Historicism
Ironists
Narratives
Nominalists
Oedipal cycle
Poeticization
Solidarity
Vocabulary proliferation
Sq: Pirsig does indeed imply contextualisation when he suggests that value
can replace causation. If one replaces causation with value the data remains
the same but the philosophical assumptions change.
This is stated with some clarity and force by Pirsig.
The whole issue of the MOQ being a 'Copernican' inversion implies
contextualisation.
Platt: Ideas and values you and Pirsig agree on:
Metaphysics a menu, map
Openness to new experiences and ideas
Seeking freshness
Seeking quietude
Striving for excellence
The high value of freedom
Uncovering hidden assumptions
Sq: The last on this list may lead to recontextualisation.
I am not a full blown Rortyan, but Rorty is not without his value?
Bo does not go in for revising our language in the light of a new value
centred metaphysics; rather, Bo wishes to plug a hole that actually does not
exist after revision has taken place.
All the best,
Squonk.
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