From: Ant McWatt (antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 17:38:45 BST
Matt Kundert stated March 22nd 2005:
>One of the points of "Philosophologology" and "Pirsig Institutionalized"
>was to create a tension between Pirsig's
>rhetoric/doctrine/position/stance/whatever-else-you-want-to-call-it and his
>actual practice. For instance, it is my contention that to hold a
>distinction between philosophy and philosophology and use it the way Pirsig
>seems to use it you would have to have an ahistorical sense of philosophy,
>you'd have to think of philosophy as a natural kind.
Matt,
Thanks for the elucidation concerning the distinction between philosophy and
philosophology. However, could you please explain exactly what you mean by
"natural kind" here.
Best wishes,
Anthony.
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