--- Erin Noonan <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote: > > I
noticed today's exchange between you and André,
> > Erin, Horse, but it's too
> > much to comment. Count me on your and Horse's side
> > ...if I've got it right,
> > I'm starting to doubt my judgement.
> >
>
> Now that you've chosen your "side", the universe can
> sit back and wait for the next schism, in the side
> you
> like. Eventually there's only you left.
>
> André
>
>
> Yes Andre there are people here who keep liking to
> make this forum into
> two groups-- the "real" group and the "liking" group
> I guess would
> be today's division. Still waiting for your real
> comments on about
> this real quote. Do you like it or is not real?
How do you feel about it?
André
>
> PIRSIG: "Unlike SOM, the MOQ does not insist on a
> single exclusive truth. If
> subjects and objects are held to be the ultimate
> reality then we're permitted
> only one construction of things -- that which
> corresponds to the 'objective'
> world -- and all other constructions are unreal. But
> if quality or excellence
> is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes
> possible for more than one set
> of truths to exist. Then one doesn't seek the
> absolute 'Truth.'
> One seeks instead the highest quality intellectual
> explanation of things with
> the knowledge that if the past is any guide to the
> future this explanation
> must be taken provisionally; as useful until
> something better comes along. One
> can then examine intellectual realities the same way
> he examines paintings in
> an art gallery, not with an effort to find which one
> is the 'real' painting,
> but simply to enjoy and keep those of value." (Ch
>
>
> erin
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