From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 16:21:13 GMT
Hi Johnny:
Oops. I didn't intentionally omit you from this discussion. Pure
negligence on my part. I wonder if you also agree with Kevin's
postmodern position.
Platt
> > Platt observes:
> > Right on. A wonderful "foundation" of knowledge--it agrees with
> > experience, is logically consistent and is wonderfully economical. Now
> > where have I seen those same epistemological standards in print? Oh yes,
> > now I remember. Chapter 8 of "Lila." :-)
> >
> > Kevin:
> > Are you agreeing that Pirsig is a postmodernist? :-)
> >
> > At this point, after so many runs around this familiar track, I feel
> > confident that you understand what many of us are saying about
> > postmodernism.
> >
> > Pomos *DON'T* think everything is equal or that we can't know Better from
> > Worse. In fact, we could say that *ALL* we ever *CAN* know is Better from
> > Worse because Truth (the ahistorical absolute kind) will ultimately
> > escape us. We can but choose to conintue on a course of Betterness to
> > make of things what we will without concerning ourselves with finding the
> > Terminus of that Quest. It's the Journey, not the destination.
>
> 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."
>
> Also I wonder if you all agree that Pirsig's epistemological standards make
> him a postmodernist. Seems to me that logical consistency is not one of
> postmodern's long suits. :-)
>
> Platt
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