[MD] Social Imposition ?

[David M]

Hi Platt

Yet we know the giant is an aspect of our experience
and cannot be ignored.

David M


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> 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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