From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 02:53:32 GMT
Matt and all:
Matt said on 4 March 2003:
"Pirsig seems to stike the view that you don't need epistemology. It's all
intuitive."
Pirsig said on the second page of chapter 8:
"The MOQ subscribes to what is called empiricism. It claims that all
legitimate human knowledge arises from the senses or by thinking about what
the senses provide. Most empiricists deny the validity of any knowledge
gained through imagination, authority, tradition or purely theoretical
reasoning. They regard fields such as art, morality, religion and
metaphysics as unverifiable. The MOQ varies from this by saying that the
values of art and morality and even religious mysticism are verifiable, and
that in the past they have been excluded for metaphysical reasons, not
empirical reasons. They have been excluded because of the metaphysical
assumption that all the universe is composed of subjects and objects and
anything that can't be classified as a subject or an object isn't real.
There is no empirical evidence for this assumption at all. It is just an
assumption."
DMB says:
No epistemology? Its all intuitive? Well, if empiricism isn't epistemology,
the MOQ's version of it or otherwise, then nothing is and the word has no
meaning.
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