From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 21:17:47 BST
Ian,
> I actually don't buy the "we must define and agree our terms before we
> can have a valid (but long) dialectical argument" bit. That is actually
> the Catch-22 from which I wish to free us. (And incidentally the one
> from which I thought the pragmatist Pirsig had freed us.)
The "pragmatist Pirsig?" I don't think so. From Lila, Chap. 29:
"James would probably have been horrified to find that Nazis could use
his pragmatism just as freely as anyone else, but Phaedrus didn't see
anything that would prevent it."
Regards,
Platt
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