[MD] Truth and the Linguistic Turn

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> With all the information on the web about postmodernism it's hard to 
> be willfully ignorant of the subject.
> 
> [Arlo]
> And yet you achieve this with resounding success.
> 
> [Platt]
> Since as usual you make the assertion without evidence, I'll chalk it 
> up to ignorance.
 
> [Arlo]
> You give the "evidence" every time you post. Why should I repeat it? 
> It's there for anyone to read.

Just as I thought -- no evidence.

> [Platt]
> No difference between a planned performance and an accident? Surely you jest.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Makes no difference. Whether the firewalker "plans" his activity or 
> stumbles onto the hot coals "by accident", the end result is that the 
> same immediate experience, standing on hot coals, is experienced 
> differently by some than others, some as "low quality" and some as 
> "high quality".

Big difference in psychological preparation. 

> [Platt]
> Is anything certain to you, or is "Nothing is certain" another 
> self-contradictory postmodern tenant?
> 
> [Arlo]
> There, you asked for evidence of willful ignorance, and now you have it.

Again, no evidence. Avoiding the answer. 

> [Platt]
> Proof he wasn't?
> 
> [Arlo]
> If you posit he was "drugged out of his mind", then the burden of 
> proof is on you. You make the claim, you back it up. Until then, the 
> video demonstrates clearly that the monk shows no evidence of 
> experiencing a "low quality".

No, you made the claim about what he experienced. 

> But.. even if he was. That just proves my point further, because now 
> you are making qualification upon qualification to try to show your 
> "absolute". So someone drugged out of his mind who sits on a hot 
> stove may have a completely different experience. Just shows how the 
> quallity of all experience is relative.

Not my absolute. Pirsig's. "ANY PERSON . . ." Oh, I forgot. You ignore what
Pirsig writes when it doesn't fit your postmodernist views.




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