Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 20:28:24 GMT

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    Hi Platt,

    >Are you saying that postmodernism has value only when there is
    >disagreement about what is true? If so, this presupposes that there is
    >such a thing as "the truth" which, if I understand what Matt has been
    >saying, is what postmodernists deny.

    No, I was saying other people have value in coming to a conclusion about
    what is true, that one person's own idea about what is true isn't good
    enough. After all, you brought up the Emperor, didn't he believe he was
    truly wearing new clothes? If he valued other people properly, he would
    have found out that what he believed was true was not true.

    In fact, that story so perfectly illustrates this pint that I can't conceive
    of how you could have been using it to make any other point. How were you
    using it again?

    Johnny

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