From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 21:45:12 GMT
Steve,
Steve said:
Have you changed your mind and decided to play metaphysics? If not, I'm not sure how to have this conversation with you.
Matt:
I have three answers: One, some people define "metaphysics" as I define "philosophy," so it doesn't much matter to me at the moment whether you say that I'm playing metaphysics or not, as long as it isn't construed as my saying what's _really_ real. Two, if you define metaphysics in the old-fashioned, Platonic way, it doesn't matter too much to me at the moment whether you take what I say for your own purposes to be what's _really_ real, all the while keeping in mind that I don't think of it that way.
And three, at the moment I'm doing what I would call biography, as opposed to philosophy. I think the point I'm making about discreteness is imbedded in Pirsig and so my argument for it is an explication of his philosophy, not my own.
But we can discuss both points: is it in Pirsig? Is it good philosophy?
Squank said:
When on Earth are people going to understand that what we have, in the shape and form of one Matt Kundert, is a bit of a trouble causer - a flamer - a man who waists his intellectual talents in the service of gleeful disruption?
Matt:
Good to hear from you, too, though I think you give me too much credit. I don't think I, or anyone else having posted here, past or present, is worthy of the title Arch-Villian, which you seem to like to bandy about.
Matt
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