[MD] SOLAQI, Kant's TITs, chaos, and the S/I distinction

[ian glendinning]

By the way DMB, as I accurately predicted ...

[QUOTE]
I'm going to have fun dredging that one up for DMB every time he
accuses me of being unclear. My riposte can be "ah, but I'm therefore
closer to the truth" ;-)
[UNQUOTE]

Yes, I'm make a virtue out of lack of clarity, in a sense. It's not
possible for everything to be clear at the same time, it then becomes
a matter of what it's important to be clear about in different
situations, and of course that's when we make mistakes, me inlcuded.

Many a true word.
Ian



On 1/4/07, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi DMB, Marsha, (Horse mentioned)
>
> I already did a simple transaltion, I'm happy to fix lack of clarity
> where I can, when pointed out. I enjoyed Marsha's comments - I'm not
> deliberately obscurantist. Yours is very creative, but doesn't have
> much to do with anything I've said.
>
> (Horse, is this kind of incessant personal attack going too far
> towards the destructive ?)
>
> Ian
>
> On 1/3/07, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Ian said:
> > Respect for whom ? The Sage ? Pirsig ? His undoubted wisdom and original
> > authorship commands genuine respect, but does not exempt his own statements
> > of ideas from their contingency, and potential enhancement by dialogue. I'm
> > here for the dialogue, not respect for authority.
> >
> > Marsha replied:
> > I wish I knew wormspeak.
> >
> > dmb says:
> > I'd recommend that you learn to speak with weasle words. It's much easier to
> > pick up and once you know it you'll be able to understand most dialects of
> > wormspeak, the various forms of turkeytalk and, oddly, your sense of smell
> > will become more sensitive. The only possible side-effect is that your gag
> > reflexes might increase in sensitivity also. This can make things a bit
> > messy.
> >
> > I the mean time, please allow me to translate for you. Here Ian is turning
> > his lack of comprehension into a virtue. In this worm's-eye view,
> > comprehension is an evil and oppressive thing and confusion is just as good
> > as enlightenment. In this mode of expression, its important to pretend your
> > opponent said something completely ridiculous and then refute it. Here, for
> > example, Ian has responded as if someone said, "Bob is always right about
> > everything" or "What Bob said will be true for all eternity". These are the
> > sorts of things that make back-peddling and equivocating so fun and easy.
> > You'll see.
> >
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