Re: MD Squonk wrote a Review

From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 09:32:04 GMT

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    Squonk finally said:
    Oh nope. Not yet. Your undoing is still to come...

    Hello Matt,
    Your 'essay' begins by obscuring the central topic of Quality, moves swiftly
    on to general philosophology, and ends with a Rortython. The philosophology,
    which is mostly pretty obvious, is presented as if revealing staggering
    originality and insight. This is simply not the case. To say organisms learn
    and apply from experience isn't hot stuff no matter how extensively you dress
    it up. And to extend that to abstract intellectual processes doesn't mean
    metaphysics has to be erased as a bad dream. Metaphysics is largely about
    curiosity; about thinking about those things imagination has access to in
    moments of madness.
    A good overview of the history of philosophy in terms outlined by your
    extensive quotes from Rorty, while never very far from interesting, is for
    the most part straight forward.
    Along the way, Quality becomes unreal. Is Quality real?
    You have to explain Quality no matter how your organism responds to it? Or
    are you telling the forum that the 'it' of the Zen master is not real?

    In one paragraph of your magnus opus, you read something into Pirsig that you
    haven't actually read yet! Laugh? I nearly stopped!

    squonk

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