RE: MD A metaphysics - Bootstrapping

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 20:51:50 BST

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    David,

    Go to http://public.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofindp.cgi
    And enter the word "bootstrapping".
    You'll find 15 or 20 alternative dictionary defintions of bootstrapping,
    none of them much different from what Pirsig (or I) meant by it.

    Regards,
    Ian (I still don't do long posts)

    PS
    All I was waiting for was a response to my observation directed at your
    request for me to elaborate on my definition in "The Intellectual Level"
    thread
    [QUOTE]
    An observation though ...

    I actually don't buy the "we must define and agree our terms before we can
    have a valid (but long) dialectical argument" bit.
    That is actually the Catch-22 from which I wish to free us.
    (And incidentally the one from which I thought the pragmatist Pirsig had
    freed us.)

    I personally believe in many short exchanges where we each share our own
    half-meanings, until concensus is discovered.
    One man's "valuable shortcut" is another man's "jargon" until this happens.
    [UNQUOTE]

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
    [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of David Buchanan
    Sent: 17 August 2003 01:06
    To: 'moq_discuss@moq.org'
    Subject: RE: MD A metaphysics

    Ian said:
    Yes David, I spotted your challenge somewhere in the last 300 mails, but
    I need you to respond to my last message to you, before I see it worth my
    (anybody's) while to respond.

    dmb says:
    Hmm. Now I have prove that I'm worthy of a response? OK. Give me a clue as
    to where I might find your last message to me. Thread name? Date? Anything
    would help. As I recall, I simply asked you to explain "bootstrapping", a
    term you'd used in a post or two.

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