[MD] What's missing

[Mati Palm-Leis]

Magnus,

If I may take a shot at your point: 

"What I don't agree with is your claim that the *only* paradigm that fits in
the 4th level is the S/O paradigm. I refuse to believe that the MoQ is the
first world view that doesn't use the S/O division as the primary one, and
isn't that what you're claiming?"

Mati: I have been thinking about is how the S/O divide provided a new basis
from which reality was defined.  Prior to the Aristotle's divide there is a
lot of activity which looked and smelled like intellectual activity. The
fact as I see it, it was intellectual activity; however I feel that this
activity itself does not qualify as intellect. All this intellectual
activity in itself does not have the capacity to sustain itself beyond the
social level until the s/o divide occurs.  Now the question is after the s/o
divide does SOM itself become the primary taproot for all intellect prior to
MOQ.  I would suggest yes because any intellectual thought that enters the
philosophical arena to test the value of its existence it is beholden to the
S/O for validation. Look at any methodology textbook and any philosophical
notation works it way back to s/o. The problem is that science, as a form of
intellectual thought, creates problems for the validation via S/O.  Today
many of the sciences have all but divorced themselves from philosophy for
that very reason.  MOQ has Pirsig suggests in LILA, MOQ is a far more
friendly philosophical paradigm in which the validation of the scientific
intellectual thought can occur.  

Just a thought, 
Mati