Re: MD: MOQ Where's the matter gone?

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 16:38:59 GMT

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    Bo,

    Bo said:
    "What is true everywhere and always" is what Pirsig means by a metaphysics in the opening chapters of LILA:. I know that you hold that everything is man-made and "perishable", but - illusory or not - we can't avoid it and if the MOQ makes it in the world, it will have wrestled the TRUTH (relay pin) from the SOM. Isn't this good pragmatism?

    Matt:
    I know what Pirsig says, its why I criticism him for being a Platonic/Kantian metaphysician. My point is that being a metaphysician and a pragmatist are incompatible. Good pragmatism is holding back from the overly Whiggish claim that what you now believe has been the Truth everywhere and always. It is instead following James in saying that it is what is good to now believe.

    Matt

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