[MD] The China Syndrome

[MarshaV]

Greetings Bo,

I have a copy of a September 2003 letter to Paul Turner from RMP, but 
not a 2005 letter.  Where can I find a copy of the 2005 letter?

Marsha




At 04:42 AM 10/16/2008, you wrote:
>All
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>On 14 Oct. Platt Holden quoted LILA:
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> > "But the Metaphysics of Quality states that practicality is a social
> > pattern of good. It is immoral for truth to be subordinated to social
> > values since that is a lower form of evolution devouring a higher one.
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>The MOQ sees TRUTH as an intellectual pattern value and in this
>context it is synonymous with OBJECTIVITY - not merely truthfulness -
>and was what arrived with the Greeks - as SOM - thus the
>intellect=S/O is affirmed again, again and AGAIN, but this discussion
>won't touch the issue any more it believes that there is a MOQ without
>it. My antagonist from old - Paul Turner disappeared after Pirsig's letter
>of 2005 that confirmed the SOL (At times I miss Paul's understanding,
>but then it was what resulted in his withdrawal and opening an
>impenetrable blog) DMB tried for some time to hold the fort, but is a
>lesser MOQ scholar than Paul and has now withdrawn to his
>academical studies and obviously believes that "radical empiricism" is
>the way for MOQ's introduction. But that will never happen Academy
>IS SOM and like China swallows all invaders and makes them
>Chinese (hope it doesn't anger Khoo?) the SOM absorbs the MOQ - if
>it ventures inside academy through the front door. Exactly what has
>happened to Anthony McWatt's Ph.D. It made it past the guardians for
>the very reason that his definition of Q-intellect is the woolly "anything
>goes".  If our academicians had been "trojan horses" i.e. playing along
>to get inside but then springing the true MOQ in their faces, but as said
>it's the China Syndrome.
>
>Bo
>
>

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