[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[david buchanan]

Bo said:
Where does the MOQ say  that "the world as we know it" are analogies. It says that it is Value. If it was analogies a Metaphysics of Analogies (MOA) is required.

Pirsig wrote:

"Now it comes! Because Quality is the GENERATOR of the mythos. That's it. That's what he meant when he said, 'Quality is the continuing stimulus which causes us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.' ...Men invent RESPONSES to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you've go to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know. It's an analogue to what you already know. It HAS to be. It can't be anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is  known before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues. These fill the boxcars of the train of consciousness."  (ZAMM, page 351, near the end of chapter 28. Emphasis is Pirsig's) 




 		 	   		  
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