From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 12:42:22 BST
Hi Paul, Ham, All:
Paul writes to Ham:
> As far as Pirsig is concerned, there is no "leap" involved in believing
> that quality is real and verifiable. If you think quality isn't real, then
> you are saying that it is better to believe that than it is to believe that
> it is real. The MOQ axiom of "some things are better than others" cannot be
> denied without contradiction.
>
> The leap occurs in believing that quality is Quality i.e. that it *is*
> reality. He spends two books "justifying" this leap.
Were I into tattoos, on the back of my left hand I would inscribe "Some
things are better than others" and on the back of my right hand "I may not
know much, but I know what I like." Then I'd be reminded as I traverse
through life that what I've been taught is real ain't necessarily so.
Platt
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