[MD] Static latching & faith

[Scott Roberts]

Ant,

Ant quotes Pirsig:
"Faith is not required for an understanding of Quality. Here Quality
succeeds where Bradley's Absolute and Hegel's Being and the Buddhist
Nothingness and the Hindu Oneness and the theists' God and Allah and
you-name-it; all of them fail.  For Quality, no faith is required because
there is no way you can disbelieve that there is such a thing as Quality.
You cannot conceive of or live in a world in which nothing is better than
anything else." (Pirsig's Copleston Annotations, 2000, p.216)

"I think it is extremely important to emphasize that the MOQ is pure
empiricism.   There is nothing supernatural in it."  (Pirsig, 2000e in "A
Critical Analysis of the MOQ" by Anthony McWatt, p.50)

Scott:
On the contrary, it is very easy to conceive of a world without Quality, 
namely the scientific materialist's assumption of what the universe was like 
before there was life. True, one cannot conceive of human existence without 
Quality, but the MOQ claims that there is Quality in the inorganic as well 
as in the human. That is a non-empirical assumption. One cannot conceive of 
human existence without sensory perception either, but that does not imply 
that there is sensory perception in the inorganic.

- Scott