From: Scott Roberts (jse885@localnet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 16:42:59 GMT
Ron,
Ron said:
I hate to join in with everyone else trying to bring you around to Quality
thinking. Generally I like to side with the underdog, but I must offer my
view as I see it. Three different individuals from varying backgrounds would
see a redlight as a part of three totally different empirical systems.
Scott:
Then why do stoplights work to stop traffic? In this you are gutting the
word "empirical" way beyond what Pirsig is doing. The whole *point* of
claiming that some knowledge is empirical is that it is supposed to be
readily sharable.
The rest of your post is simply not germane to my objection. In fact, it
appears that you have simply no conception of what the word "empirical"
means in modern philosophy, and unless that is agreed upon, there is no way
to discuss the value of Pirsig's expansion of the term. Apparently you are
treating the word "empirical" to mean "whatever I know". That way lies a
breakdown in communication.
- Scott
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