From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 18:47:29 BST
Hello Matt,
You ascribe the following quote to Paul:
Paul said:
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.
Is this what Paul actually said:
Paul:
Matt, you've convinced me that these discussions are not really what I
am looking for right now. This and your other post...
"I could point to all the places I talk about Pirsig. I could point to
all the places that others do not. I could point out that "Pirsigian"
isn't the name of a language and that, even if it was, nobody has ever
spoken it here, that a Pirsigian vocabulary, like a Rortyan vocabulary,
simply refers to a short list of idiosyncratic terms that need a lot of
other common terms to be supported in any meaningful way. I could do
that, but I won't because I think I've taken all of those tacts.
Instead, I'm going to answer that I've come to discuss philosophy with
other philosophy lovers. This site provides a space. Don't like it?
Don't listen in, change the channel, walk out of the room, do all the
other things people do to not take part in a conversation: delete the
e-mail."
...has finally helped me see that this has become more of a general
philosophy forum than a site to discuss Pirsig's metaphysics in depth
and in its own vocabulary and definitions as provided by the author.
Indeed, it seems that the idea of agreeing on the meaning of MOQ
vocabulary and definitions has been generally declared either impossible
or even undesirable.
If so, why?
If not i apologise. Would you indicate which post your first quote comes
from? Because i may be missing it and others for some inexplicable reason.
Mark
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