[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Heather Perella]

     [Matt]
> there is a difference between SOM
> and our ability to distinguish, to make
> distinctions, etc.  At the very root of the Quality
> thesis, waiting there implicitly, lies our ability
> to distinguish between X and Y, using the analytic
> knife, because if we didn't first have that power,
> then we wouldn't be able to value one more than the
> other.  In fact, Pirsig's very important point is
> that the analytic knife, our distinguishing ability,
> is the same thing as our process of valuing...

     I too see a difference between SOM (or an S/O
intellect) and our ability to distinguish. 
Distinctions, the latter way, open to value processes
presently staticly latching.


gray clouds,
SA  

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