[MD] Science and the MOQ

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Ham]
So that Arlo has no logical justification for equating knowledge to
"assumptions".

[Arlo]
Arlo didn't. Platt did. "Every form of knowledge rests on assumptions". Do you
disagree. I agreed with him. I only  added that that statement itself, by
self-reference, also rests on assumptions.

[Ham]
First of all, knowledge is based on experience, which has nothing to do with
"culture". 

[Arlo]
Wrong. Our experience is always culturally mediated. Basic MOQ. I don't care to
argue "Essentialism" with you, I know you disagree with Pirsig. Enough said on
my part.

[Ham]
Arlo then went on to assert that "knowledge rests on assumptions".  

[Arlo]
Platt made this assertion.

[Ham]
Inserting "quality" into this argument doesn't win any brownie points.  It's
just a euphemistic way of saying that some knowledge is true.

[Arlo]
"True" is simply a euphemistic way of saying "it works for now".

[Ham]
Descartes couldn't think, let alone exist, if it were not for the culture of
17th Century France!

[Arlo]
No. It requires language to "think". 

[Ham]
Thanks, Arlo, for explaining to us how Pirsig has overcome the subject/object
dichotomy.

[Arlo]
I know. Your Glorious Man is superior to Pirsig's radical empiricism. 

The funny thing here is how "shocked" you sound. You've been here for how many
years, Ham. You've supposedly read ZMM and LILA, and yet I quote Pirsig (a
common quotation) and you act like suddenly you have proof that Essentialism is
superior to the MOQ! Wow!