From: David M (davidint@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 19:00:39 BST
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From: "David M" <davidint@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: MD The MOQ implies that there is more to reality than DQ & SQ.
> Hi Matt
>
> See comments.
>
> (This is how I think people should take my suggestion about getting rid of
> metaphysics. I'm not suggesting we get rid of "defining," I'm suggesting
> we
> get rid of "hard cuts." The smell of paradox arises in Pirsig because the
> metaphysical terminology was developed to be
> "defining-as-making-hard-cuts."
> Pirsig uncouples "defining" from "hard cuts," but everything in the
> language still revolves around those "hard cuts," so it sometimes sounds
> like bad metaphysical-as-hard-cuts instead of innocuous
> metaphysical-as-defining. All I'm suggesting is that Pirsig can look less
> paradoxical if we use a different set of terms to describe what he's up
> to.)
>
> Matt
>
>
> DM: I pretty much agree with what you say. What different set of terms
> are you referring to in the last sentence? By the way I think you would
> dig John Dupre's The Disorder of Things. I really don't care if we see
> DQ/SQ as a metaphysical distinction or not, but to be trully ironist it
> counts as a metaphysical distinction because it potentially has the same
> kind of
> conceptual impact and territory as subject/object, you never know we might
> be
> able to build a more ironist sort of civilisation on it for a couple of
> thousand years,
> a map that makes new journeys possible.
>
>
>
>
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