Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 15:31:10 GMT

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    Hey David,

    DMB
     I should have said, "Pirsig's attack is upon a METAPHYSICS of substance,
    but
    > not the data, properties or values from which we deduce substance" or
    > something like that. Its not easy to be precise about this, which is why
    am
    > so impressed with your efforts on this matter.

    RICK
    Thanks for the kind words David. Now if we could just find a way to see eye
    to eye on this whole 'pragmatism' thing :)

    DMB
    > I should add that the shift from substance to inorganic patterns of value
    > also manages to save the data and the world without making any kind of
    > declarations about what is really is. He seems to be saying is that all we
    > have are the data and that is quite enough. We don't have some deduced
    thing
    > in which qualities appear, we just have the qualites or values themselves.

    RICK
    Yes!!! I think we're now in complete agreement on this whole 'substance'
    thing.

    take care,
    rick

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