From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 14:47:48 GMT
Bo, Mati
Bo said:
On 11 Feb. Mati commented Paul's
> >If the terms objective and subjective, with respect to ideas, methods
> > and knowledge, were replaced with high quality and low quality, I
> > think there would be less confusion.
> Mati: Ok, I am not really philosophically savvy as I would like to be,
> but this seems a big step backward from where Pirsig has brought us.
> It feels like perhaps this is going back down the slippery slope of
> SOM. In large part because it would in the end would require knowledge
> to be sorted would by a subjective reality (couched in SOM) to work
> and be back where we started from.
Good to see that there are reasonable people around.
Paul:
Keep the morale of your troops up Bo!
Sadly, Mati seems to be doing exactly what I am suggesting we stop doing
- confusing the ontological sense of subjective with the epistemological
sense - and then throwing in a "SOMist!" accusation for good measure :-)
Paul
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