[MD] Democracy

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Hello Bo,
 
on 11/4 you wrote:


You seemingly agree with me that mathematics is S/O-based, but this 
agreement is based on the .

    "Skilled manipulation of abstract symbols that have no 
    corresponding particular experience and which behave 
    according to rules of their own".  

which was Pirsig's effort to improve on the ill-conceived 4th. level 
without accepting the SOL. 

Mathematics is S/O because it was a newfangled objective, rational 
approach (to the age-old craft of calculation) that began around the 
same time as SOM emerged in Greece (according to ZAMM) The said 
age-old calculation was applying LOGIC by the said "skilled 
manipulation ..."  and something that the social age (level) people were 
as good at as ourselves.  

Ron:
Inductive inference, as you say, pre-dates the ancient Greeks but what
the Greeks did was develop and place emphasis on  the deductive.
Deductive inference deals mainly with abstract symbols that have no 
corresponding particular experience and which behave according 
to rules of their own".  The formal deduction of abstract "entites" is what
really defines Greek thought and the whole of western enterprise
up to modern times.

 
> But, The intellectual level as defined by western thought does not
> encompass all intellectual patterns only those patterns which recognize
> essentialism and it's assumptions. 

Nonsense. "Western thought" doesn't know or recognize any 
"intellectual level" because it IS the intellectual level, encompasses 
every last bit of it and can't see beyond it. Elementary Dr. Kulp

Ron:
Making my above assertion correct. SOM is blind to all intellectual patterns save the
ones it traditionally values. 


Thanks Bo.









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