[MD] Mill: Quality philosopher

[Matt Kundert]

Platt,

Platt said:
Be that as it may, my question at the moment is simply after all you say 
below do you agree with Pirsig's "logical consistency" as a characteristic 
of quality truth or not?  I anticipate you will avoid answering yes or no 
since in your worldview, yes or no is a simplistic, foolish dichotomy. For 
the rest of us, yes and no move evolution forward.

Matt:
Nope, no avoidance.  Is logical consistency a characteristic of quality 
truth?  Sure it is.  Which is exactly why I said paradox is important to 
avoid when making a point.

Now, if you had said "is logical consistency a characteristic of absolute 
truth?", we'd be in another kettle of fish because it isn't clear how we 
would know if we'd found characteristics or criteria for absolute, universal 
truth.

Gene is right: we shouldn't, in our more careful moments, say that absolute 
truth does or does not exist.  Pragmatists are advocating we stop talking 
about it because talk of it (started by Plato) hasn't gotten us any closer 
in answering the question because we are no where closer towards developing 
criteria of even knowing how we'd know if we answered the question.

Matt

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