[MD] Probability

[Platt Holden]

Ian:

> Platt - you may still hold to the existence of some absolute truth
> (wherever you got it from, it certainly wasn't Pirsig) but surely you
> can see that the "expressions" of that truth in the real world are
> contextual. A court of law is just one such context.

Funny you should ask, but I did get the existence of absolute certainty 
from Pirsig, as in:

"But that the quality is low is absolutely certain. It is the primary 
empirical reality from which such things as stoves and heat and oaths 
and self are later intellectually constructed."

and

"A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological 
values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a 
culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social 
values is absolutely superior to one that does not."

 . . . and in other places among  the writings of our esteemed leader. 

As for "context" I gather that you consider it to be an absolute. :-) 

Platt