[MD] moq thought experiment 1.

[squonkmuse at talktalk.net]

Hello Ham,
Yes, i've been reading your web site.
There is allot there to digest - no indigestion yet - but it takes a little time.

There is something i should like to ask you though, and it requires a little preamble.
Please read the following and consider how it may apply to your Essentialism if you have the time:

Let us assume the following:

1. Pirsig has identified?the shared experience of 'excellence' in human affairs.
2. Following arguments presented by David Hume in his 'An Essay concerning Human understanding' he has elevated this experience to a Cosmic principle.

3.?Ham has identified?the shared experience of abstract intellectual discourse - specifically, concerning essence.
4. Following David Hume, Ham has elevated this experience to a Cosmic principle.

If these positions can be maintained, it may also be argued that 3 and 4 are specific examples of the more general 1 and 2.


Note:
a. The argument Hume advances is that our understanding of God is extrapolated from concepts regarding finitude.
b. Re. 1 and 2. This is Nietzsche's position.

Thanks Ham,
squonk