Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 17:40:00 GMT

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    Platt said
    >Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Foucault imply if not say outright
    >that "relativity of thought" is a universal while at the same time >denying
    >the existence of universals?

    Not at the same time, no. First he says it's a universal, then he denies
    universals, then he says it's a universal, then he denies universals. You
    just have to keep up with him and he stays true. It is just a sort of
    Euclidian geometry that prevents something from being both true and false
    "at the same time", because the "at the same time" turns out to be
    meaningless, merely a logical hang-up for stubborn minds who don't want to
    ride the DQ of ever-oscillating truths. Most things are both true and
    false, because the observer changes, the context changes, the whole universe
    changes, at every moment, and it is impossible to stay in a moment long
    enough to nail anything down. You don't have time to hang a sign...

    Just being silly...(no i'm not)

    Johnny

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