From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 20:26:04 BST
Matt said:
Rorty doesn't talk a tremendous amount about the concept of "beauty", to my knowledge, except to say that it is thin, like the terms "true" and "good". By thin, Rorty moreorless means undefineable, which pretty much matches with Pirsig.
DMB said:
I doubt it very much. I strongly suspect that "thin" is very much like SOM's characterization. He's saying such things are "just subjective". I think this is just one of a hundred examples that show Rorty to be the problem Pirsig is trying to overcome.
Matt:
Oh, fer Chrissake.
Where did you get that reading of Rorty out of? The word "thin"? My God, your interpretational skills are astounding. I even explicated what Rorty meant by "thin" so people weren't mislead, as I knew some would be, but you don't care.
Given your oh-so-extensive and public knowledge of Rorty, I'll let other people judge as to whom they'll trust on what Rorty is and isn't saying.
Matt
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