[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> > "But if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it
> > becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one 
> > doesn't seek the absolute Truth.' One seeks instead the highest quality 
> > intellectual explanation of things with the knowledge that if the past is 
> > any guide to the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as 
> > useful until something better comes along. One can then examine 
> > intellectual realities the same way one examines paintings in an art 
> > gallery, not with an effort to find out which one is the 'real' painting, 
> > but simply to enjoy and keep those that are of value. There are many sets 
> > of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more
> 
> > quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result of our 
> > history and current patterns of values." RMP - Lila
> 
> [Platt]
> Where does Pirsig say truth or objective reality cannot be known? 
> 
> [Krimel]
> You could try the paragraph above. I know there are a few big words there.
> Try sounding them out. Notice the part about "Then one doesn't seek the
> absolute Truth." And the part about "One can then examine intellectual
> realities the same way one examines paintings in an art gallery, not with an
> effort to find out which one is the 'real' painting, but simply to enjoy and
> keep those that are of value."

Those excerpts say nothing about truth cannot be known. You see things that
aren't there. I think they call that hallucinating. 

> This is a really like postmodern argument here coming from an English
> teacher... Is this starting to come together for you now? That last bit is
> the part that means that if HipHop floats your boat it's as good as
> Shakespeare. Especially, if you don't really care much for Shakespeare.

Try this to bring you back from Disneyland to reality. "The tests of truth are
logical consistency, agreement with experience, and economy of explanation."
(Lila, 8) If you don't get it at first, write it out 100 times. Oh, I forgot.
Writing is difficult for you. 



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