From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 15:07:03 GMT
Matt, Platt,
Your latest round of discourse concluded with this exchange:
> >I fail to see any agreement between the MOQ and
> >postmodern theory
> >which begins by denying the existence of a universal
> >truth while at the
> >same time asserting its denial to be universally
> >true. Do you see the
> >absurdity?
>
> Pirsig interrogates the very basis upon which thought
> takes place; he shows how thought within the SOM is
> not, as previously thought, a true window on reality,
> but rather just one way of perceiving reality; he
> nihilistically denies the rightful sovereignty of any
> mode of thought – this is virtually a dictionary
> definition of postmodernism as it applies to discourse
> on thought. And I think your sentence perhaps
> misrepresents the postmodernists – I think they would
> rather it be phrased “all I can be sure of is that
> there is no universal truth”.
I'm beginning to think absurdity is an integral aspect of every scientific
and philosophical system. Which in a way is comforting. Everyone needs a
sense of humor.
My view on postmodernism is that at its core it simply emphasizes the
"eraser" of the scientific method. The SCI-method itself says there are no
100% airtight facts, a detail which bothered the young Pirsig. I believe what
Matt is saying is that both Pirsig and postmodernism say that certain aspects
of reality are indefinable.
Jon
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