[MD] Julian Baggini Interview with Pirsig

[ian glendinning]

Hi Matt,

I accept your warning that I was being loose with my words "just as
relevant as". I was being deliberately non-specific as to what the
relevance / relationship really is. Rhetoric is "not irrelevant" if
you like.

You may have to expand on your two phrases though, before I understand
your more precise take on it.

"is a function of" and "co-extensive with"

Regards
Ian



On 1/21/06, Matt Kundert <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ian,
>
> Just a quick note.  About the rhetoric thing, I'd be careful with the
> "rhetoric is just as relevant as logic" formulation.  It strikes me as
> Aristotelian, in that Plato ripped on rhetoric for not being dialectic/logic
> and then Pirsig traces Aristotle's response to be putting the two side by
> side.  Pirsig's response in ZMM is to point out that logic is a function of
> rhetoric, making rhetoric roughly coextensive with writing, speaking,
> thinking.
>
> Matt
>
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