From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 10:09:08 BST
> Scott: Another reason to distinguish intellect from Intellect is that our
> intellect is "our" intellect, that is, we know it in S/O form. One might
> suppose that Intellect is not.
Yes
> > > While human intellect is dominated by symbol usage, so is all other.
The
> > > particular is a symbol for the universal. The next step in the
argument,
> > > then, is to say that all reality is semiotic. (This is Peirce's view,
by
> > > the way.)
> >
> > DM: I refer to artificial/cultural symbols like writing, pictures,
> language.
> > So I think we need this distinction as well. You can make a case
> > for everything is semiotic but then there are distinctions within that.
>
> Well, sure there are distinctions, as in inorganic, biological, social,
and
> intellectual semiotics. But the important thing is recognize the semiotic
> commonality, in order to break the SOM-based nominalism that makes this
> hard to take in.
Happy to do that, I think Pirsig's use of intellect is simply not so
general & his more universal term DQ clearly shows capacities that
are intelligent, how else can it achieve the creation of the levels.
>
> - Scott
>
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