From: Matthew Stone (mattstone_2000@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 14:04:44 GMT
Platt,
> I'd like to see if the two Matts agree with your
> foundational principle that
> "all we can ever know is better from worse" and that
> it's ultimately true
> that "truth will ultimately escape us."
I agree. I'd perhaps say that rather than knowing
better or worse, we *perceive* it, as at the end of
the day these concepts (better and worse) are human
inventions that Pirsig, amongst others, uses to bring
meaning and coherence to the world. But apart from
that slight alteration I agree indeed. And yes it's
true that truth ultimately escapes us: the former
'truth' situated in man and his thought, the latter
'truth' sensed by man as external to man, and so
unknowable.
Matt S
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