--- Erin Noonan <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote:
Erin,
1. Keep (like you would a painting) :)
2. I like it.
3. The described reality (the finger) is not the
reality (the moon)
Sound cool
André
>
>
> 1)> 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
>
>
> 2)"Then he saw it. He brought out the knife and
> excised
> the one word that created the entire angering effect
>
> of that sentence. The word was "just." Why should
> Quality be just what you like? Why should "what you
> like" be "just"? What did "just" mean in this case?
> When separated out like this for independent
> examination it became apparent that "just" in this
> case really didn't mean a damn thing. It was a
> purely
> pejorative term, whose logical contribution to the
> sentence was nil. Now, with that word removed, the
> sentence became "Quality is what you like," and its
> meaning was entirely changed. It had become an
> innocuous truism."
>
> 3)Reality, which is value, is understood by every
> infant. It is a universal
> starting place of
> experience that everyone is confronted with all the
> time. Within a Metaphysics
> of
> Quality, science is a set of static intellectual
> patterns describing this
> reality, but the
> patterns are not the reality they describe."
>
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