[MD] Patterns

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]
> May I remind you that "mediation" does not mean "derivation".  It means
> "intervention between conflicting parties or agents".

[Arlo]
> Mediation, as it is referred to by Pirsig, indicated that the contents of the
> latter (mind) do NOT come from "the world of objects" but come about via social
> activity. This is expressed clearly in his statement, "our intellectual
> description of nature is always culturally derived" (there is the word derived,
> by the way).

Huh?  Your thesis may be right, but you can't show what Pirsig means by 'mediated' by showing what he means by 'derived'.  (BTW, I think you admitted this.)
Craig