From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 16:22:34 BST
Hi Ian,
> On honesty ... clearly I agree with you ... any quips about dishonesty
> being the better course are from my bag of tricks calleed "many a true
> word spoken in jest". That said, the truth of the matter is honesty of
> intent, not some semantically interpreted honesty in the syntax we use
> (what we say).
>
> Rhetoric is absolutely essential in this sea of highly un-Zen logic.
> The linguistic "truth" is always bent to make an honest point (or a
> dishonest one - there's the rub).
Have you had any correspondence with Rick (Valence) on rhetoric? There are a
few of us who think that Pirsig's work would be better off described as a
"Rhetoric of Quality" rather than a "Metaphysics of Quality". A fruitful
field in any case, I would say.
Sam
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