[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Matt Kundert]

John said:
And has it ever crossed your mind, Bo, that even if you 
were 100% right, and everybody else including Pirsig was 
wrong, you'd still be wrong because you fail the crucial 
test of "intersubjective agreement".   Meaning is socially 
construed and created, and Matt's pointing out to you 
that your very inflexibility is a proof of wrongness.

Matt:
Easy there tiger.  You can say that if you want, but I tried 
my hardest to avoid saying that nobody agreeing with Bo 
is proof that he's wrong.  It isn't.  It's just proof that he 
hasn't convinced whomever he hasn't convinced.  All it 
might suggest is, as I suggested, that he hasn't changed 
his communication style very much, which suggests to me 
he hasn't changed much (though I grant Bo his own 
opinion).  Meaning is socially constructed and whatnot, 
but that doesn't mean truth _is_ intersubjective agreement 
(the false view Mr. Buchanan keeps saying Rorty and, ipso 
facto, me entertain).

And I appreciate your loyalty to the crowd now gathered 
here, and not giving a shit what Paul Turner did or thought, 
but I do miss Paul because he was a good guy and easy to 
talk to about disagreements, helpful in straightening out 
what was what.

And if your only reason for not giving a shit about Paul is 
that he's not here (and therefore irrelevant), by that logic 
Pirsig would be irrelevant, so you might want to find a 
different reason.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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