[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[MarshaV]

Arlo,

Where does RMP _emphatically_ reject Bo's interpretation.  All I've ever 
read were weak suggestions that it didn't seem right.   

Who has been designated the thought police and by whom?  
  

Marsha 
 





On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:26 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:

> [Mary]
> We can hurl quotes at one another all day without reaching consensus as to
> exactly what Pirsig meant by what he said. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> Except about the SOL we don't need to hurl quotes. Pirsig has said that he
> considers the MOQ an intellectual pattern, and that he does NOT agree with Bo's
> "interpretation". 
> 
> Pirsig's MOQ: the intellectual pattern is NOT SOM.
> Bo's MOQ: the intellectual level IS SOM.
> 
> We don't need to "reach consensus" on this, they are different, distinct ideas. 
> 
> If you think Bo's MOQ is better, fine, yippee frickin' skip. But its not what
> "Pirsig meant by what he said". (Or, I suppose, you can walk Bo's path of
> claiming that Pirsig's denials about meaning this simply prove he himself is
> too stupid to understand what he himself meant.)
> 
> 


 
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