[MD] In Defence of Bo

[Platt Holden]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Joining up dots between:
>
> (Agreeing with Arlo that) the bogey-man of recursion in a metaphysics
> including its own definition is a non-problem for an enlightened mind.
>

[Pirsig]

You can't have Box "A" contain within itself Box "B," which in turn contains
Box "A." That's whacko. Yet here's a "science" which contains "man" which
contains "science" which contains "man" which contains "science"—on and on.
(Lila, 4)

Recursion seems to be a problem for Pirsig.

Regards,

Platt