Hey Erin,
ERIN:
Whether 100 Indians would answer "cockerspaniel" does not matter.
RICK:
Once again, please pay particular attention to Pirsig's pivitol assertion
that "The whole idea of a dog as a member of a hierarchical structure of
intellectual categories known generically as 'objects' was outside his
traditional cultural viewpoint." If it were truly "outside his traditional
cultural viewpoint" than all or most members of the same culture should
think the same way (that's what 'cultural viewpoint' means).
ERIN:
He is just showing that making a subject-object classification is not the
only kind of classification
somebody can make. Again that "substance" is not absolute reality.
That is a good vs That is a cockerspaniel
Can you see how one judgement has a form or shape, bound in language and S-O
orientation and the other isn't ?
RICK:
Yes, I see the point Pirsig is TRYING to make. I just don't think that
his story does it at all. I believe John Wooden Leg was using the adjective
'good' as applied to the object 'dog' as a signal indicative of it's
behavior.
thanks for the input,
rick
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:01:43 BST