[MD] subject / object logic

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

> > >      [Platt previously] 
> > > > Not the same. To say there is no absolute truth
> > is to assert a truth. Thus, contradictory. 
> 
>      [SA previously] 
> > >      Of course it's not the same.  I mean 1x0=0,
> > and 2x0=0.  For both of these equations to be
> exactly
> > 0.  The first zero is definitely, yeah definitely,
> > yeah um definitely not the same as the second zero. 
> > hahaha
> 
> 
>      [Platt] 
> > Glad you agree that it's not the same. 
> 
> 
>      Yeap!  0 is not 0.  0 is "not the same" as 0.
> 
> 
>  
> > >      [Platt] 
> > > > Sorry. I don't follow you. Are you saying zero
> > means nothing? Pirsig disagrees:
> > > > "Zero" and "space" are complex relationships of
> > > > "somethingness."  (Lila, 5)
> 
>      [SA previously] 
> > >      Wow!  Zero and space are the same, na
> > definitely, na, definitely not correct, I mean if
> zero, and no
> > > birds flying across the sky means I don't see any
> > > birds, then surely birds are flying as non-birds
> > > flying across the sky.  hahaha
> > > hilarious!!
> 
> 
>     [Platt] 
> > Yes. Nonsensical. 
> 
>      What is nonsensical in this context?
 
Non-birds flying.

Platt



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