[MD] Social Imposition ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> The things you mention are social events. No one has ever taken a picture of a
> society.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Or a quark. Or Quality. Or the Law of Gravity. But I am struck again by Pirsig's
> cell analogy. Isn't this like two cells denying a body exists... because they
> can't photograph it?

I think quarks are only known by visual traces they leave on an screen. Quality,
the law of gravity and society are abstract ideas no camera can catch. Abstract
ideas (thoughts) exist, but are removed from direct experience, like a menu is 
removed from a plate filled with chicken dumplings. As for the two cells, who 
knows what they deny?





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