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

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: "Case" <Case at iSpots.com>
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>Subject: Re: [MD] SOLAQI, Kant's TITs, chaos, and the S/I distinction
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:55:25 -0500
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>[Case}
>I know who I am talking too.

Hi Case

Thanks for being a good sport. I think you raise a good point about 
professional vs. amateur yet I'm not wholly convinced Robert Pirsig could 
rightly be classified as a professional philosopher. A professional writer, 
sure. He calls himself a philosophologist. Something to think about I guess.

>
>Lila's Child Intro: First Paragraph
>"It is fortunate I stayed out of this online discussion of my books, Lila
>and ZMM. Not many writers get to read a body of criticism of their work as
>intense and diverse as this. It could never have achieved its insights and
>discoveries if I'd been participating in it, dominating others with my
>"expert" opinion."
>
>Last paragraphs:
>
>"One justification for the notes is that there are questions raised that
>only I can answer and this is probably the only time and place that I can
>answer them. But beyond this there are a lot of comments that can only be
>classified as kibitzing.
>A kibitzer is the guy who stands behind your shoulder in a chess
>match and tells you all the great moves you could have made if only
>you were as smart as he is. Not a very popular thing to do, but that is
>surely what is being done here. I have tried to keep it to a minimum and
>passed over much that I disagree with where it does not seem to destroy the
>Metaphysics of Quality, but it is still kibitzing.
>After worrying about this for several weeks I finally found and ablibi.
>Kibizters only interrupt current chess games and current conversations.
>These discussions are now several years old and getting older every year.
>They're historical. I am not talking about current philosophy but about the
>philosophy of the past. That makes me not a kibitzer but a 
>philosophologist.
>As everybody knows philosophologists are not kibitzers but responsible
>dedicated well liked respectable people." (Robert Pirsig)

Isn't it a great intro? I think so. Thanks for sharing it. I think Amazon 
has the whole intro free for the viewing.

>
>Don't forget the wire snips, Boss.

Righto, Cheeso. But please, just call me Sparky.










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