[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

Krimel Krimel at Krimel.com
Mon Jan 18 07:51:18 PST 2010


[Andre]
I have come to
conclude that we are looking at the wrong section in Pirsig's letter
to Paul Turner, the section I posted to Ian and Arlo. Here it is:

'What complicates all this discrimination between intellectual and social
thought are intellectual patterns that are no longer intellectually
valid but are sustained by the social traditions that they created long
ago. Religious beliefs are in this class. Classical physics is in this
class. I think much of the opposition to the MOQ falls in this class as
well'.

[Krimel]
Notice that both intellectual and social thoughts are intellectual patterns.
The intellectual level is the set of such patterns. Who says that all of the
ideas on the intellectual level must be good ones or ones about any
particular thing? Intellectual patterns make up the intellectual level
regardless of how they are sustained or how they are preserved.

The intellectual level is big enough to handle both Logos and Mythos.







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