[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[John Carl]

Hey Mary and Andre,



> >
> > Andre:
> >
> > This is why it caught my interest Mary and I think that there is a
> > difference...and I really hope that dmb and Anthony can chime in here
> > as well. (Anthony's PhD contains 2 chapters: one on Pirsig's idea about
> > Quality and one on Pirsig's ideas about Value...I cannot access them at
> > the moment but this alone seems to suggest a difference).
> >
> [Mary replies]
> If Ant wrote chapters explaining the difference between Quality and Value
> then I'm disappointed.  There is no difference between Value and Quality
> other than the connotations those words may have for English speakers who
> don't understand the MoQ.  I think the point is that Value and Quality and
> Morals are expanded in meaning by Pirsig so that wherever you see one word
> you can take the flavor of all the others, roll them all together and know
> he's talking about a concept that's much bigger than the standard
> definition
> of any one.
>
>

John:

I've taken a stab at this before, but it bears repeating: If values are a
line, then Quality is a direction on the line.  Quality is the "goodward"
direction.  Whereas valuation is the line as a whole and how good or how
much quality any point along the line "has" depends not on position in the
line, but which way the point is "facing".

Does that make sense?