Greetings,
For some reason Bo's last posting slipped past my mail box until now. I like this though.
BO:
>For Struan:
>No more can be said in the Ayer case except that his introductory
>note: ".....it is surely not inconceivable that there should be a
>language in which the sense experiences were described by the
>use of purely qualitative ...." has materialized. If you agree to my
>metaphysics/physics comparison above we understand each other
>perfectly. Physicists don't bother with the immaterial/material
>notion as a working hypothesis and some thinkers are satisfied
>with the way the subject/object seem to merge.
I would appear that perhaps we do understand each other, at least partially. However I also agree
with Ayer's next sentence where he says that, "Such a language would not be very useful, but it
could be adequate for a description of any given experience."
I liked this even more:
BO:
"Pirsig could have called his teachings Metaphysics of Subjectivity."
STRUAN:
At last, after all this time, we agree completely.
Struan
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