Greetings,
In answer to your question Glove,
Yes! Yes! and Yes!
The point you make:
" When we apply reason to intuition, do we not subordinate intuition to reason?"
Is entirely correct and precisely the point I have been making about efforts to substantiate the
mystic thesis on this forum. The same point has been made by others, most recently Jonathan, who
wrote that:
"Pirsig's act of writing a metaphysics was a direct (and admitted) rejection of mysticism."
The mystic will not try to establish a position using logic because, as I wrote before, an argument
cannot be modally stronger than its modally weakest point. No amount of bluster by Kevin or David
will change that simple fact. They do not forward mysticism, but a half-baked, woolly,
semi-mystical, westernised, pseudo-intellectual bastardisation of a proud and worthy series of
traditions. And it stinks.
Thanks for cutting to the essence Glove.
Struan
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