RE: MD Dealing with the MOQ

From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:37:53 BST

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    Hi all

    Thanks for the kind words! A little explanation is needed..

    You may have noticed that I'm a bit of a Pirsig buff, and so to be
    blunt, I'm just being selfish. I noticed that all I seem to do lately is
    reply to posts with "well that's not what it says in the books!" which
    made me wonder when it was agreed that the MOQ needed to be changed so
    much. Then I started to see assumptions being made that didn't seem to
    come from Pirsig. So I thought it would be good to understand whether
    false assumptions had led to erroneous interpretations or if they were
    implicit and I just couldn't see them.

    So I put together a long post questioning the source of some basic
    assumptions about the MOQ but then, after reading some recent posts,
    felt that it wasn't what the forum was up to these days and that I would
    be going over old ground. In other words, there is a lot of philosophy
    on the forum and I want to do a bit of philosophology!

    So, Matt, this was not really aimed at you, your recent posts just
    represented the general direction of the forum ("strong misreadings",
    comparisons, colligations etc), and I agree when you say that people
    should do with Pirsig's ideas what they will. At the moment I'm just
    more interested in a bit of good old detailed textual analysis (which I
    know can get a bit tedious) and I'm unsure if it is something
    appropriate to online discussion groups anyway.

    So don't think that I was storming off with my bat and ball, I just
    think it may be better to lurk for a while and come up with some areas
    of the MOQ that I think are the most ambiguous/hard to understand/easy
    to misinterpret and bring them back for discussion in bite-size chunks.

    In the meantime, I won't be getting into discussions where I end up
    telling Scott that he shouldn't be colligating Pirsig and Barfield!

    Cheers

    Paul

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