[MD] Pirsig, Peirce and Philosophologology re-establishing pragmatism

[david buchanan]

Dearest darling SA:

You seem to think I'm advocating some kind of anti-intellectual sensuality 
or romantic hedonism. That was definately NOT my point.

Philosophers are creative while philosophologists are merely productive but 
both of them handle abstractions and take critical thinking seriously.

But maybe that's just because I'm more of a city-living, coffee drinker.

dmb

Previously, spiritualadirondack said:
      Exactly!  This is what my dad used to say to me a
>lot when I would get all abstract and stuck in the
>head:  "So, what's that have to do with the price of
>coffee?"  He was following in the tradition of my
>grandmother who advocated being practical, and the
>wisdom, she was a very wise women, she was, yes, very
>wise.  And I may still go on saying this and analyzing
>that, at times, but I still come back to drinking tea,
>walking in the woods, listening to music, washing the
>dishes, chatting, and such in this quiet place.  When
>I do come back to these experiences I notice how I
>conclude the same, and enjoy the sweet notion in
>living.  Even while I sit drinking tea and my mind may
>wander/wonder as the walk in the woods is a wander,
>and still I'm just drinking tea, wondering about this
>experience that is tea drinking.  What might this
>wander have to do with tea drinking?  This
>wondering/wandering each time while I tea drink and
>still, I find myself just drinking tea.  So, what's
>this have to do with drinking tea...well, the
>conclusion I keep finding is - drinking tea - that's
>what drinking tea is a conclusion of.
>
>snow lit bright,
>SA
>

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