From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 21:17:35 BST
DMB says:
> That's why I think there no such thing as low quality intellectual values
> or horrible intellectual quality.
No such thing as low quality intellectual values? In that case, I guess
we're going to have to just ignore all those high quality intellectual
values Pirsig talks about.
From Lila
Chap 8. "There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we
can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is,
in part, the result of our history and current patterns of values."
From Lila's Child
67. "However, as if to further the confusion, the MOQ says that the idea
that matter comes first is a high quality idea."
74. "Here comes the confusion. To prevent it, it is better to say that
logic is a set of rules (i.e. an intellectual pattern) that helps produce
high quality in other intellectual patterns."
100. "This knowledge is confirmed by experience in such a way as to allow
the scientist to generate a supremely high quality intellectual belief
that external objects exist."
104. "In the MOQ, and in William James' pragmatism, truth is described as
high quality intellectual patterns."
118. "It produced harmony where there had been disharmony. It had high
intellectual quality."
Where I come from, "high" implies a scale of high-medium-low. On that
scale of intellectual quality, DMB's "no such thing as low quality
intellectual level values" becomes self-refuting.
Platt
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