Re: MD Where things end.

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 12:09:00 BST

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    Hi Paul,

    This comment of Pirsig's about 'the one always being identical' has troubled me before. See

    http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/0700.html

    for a time when DMB and I were locking horns on it and related issues. My key concern remains as
    expressed there:

    quoting "The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If its not, you've got two"
    is begging the question from my point of view. (That is, using the language of 'the One' and making
    a logical point is in itself buying into a certain approach and pattern of thinking).

    In other words the point is either trivial or mistaken, I would say. (Or, to give a bit more, I
    would quote Wittgenstein: practice gives the words their sense. Just because two communities talk
    about 'the One' - if in fact they DO agree even on that (translated) description - doesn't mean
    they're describing the same thing, leaving aside the question of 'attributes' etc).

    I think that is (part of) what Scott is saying.

    Sam

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