[MD] Another parallel

[david buchanan]

Matt said to dmb: 
... I don't think I'm confident about "spotting contradictions," though I do have lingering feelings from my days of exclusive involvement with Pirsig that there were "tensions," tensions being a term of art, I suppose, that might mean two positions that seemingly pull in opposite ways.

dmb says:
Okay, I'll bite. What is the difference between "two positions that seemingly pull in opposite ways" and "a contradiction"? Besides the use of the term "seemingly" as a softener, don't they mean the same thing? 
With respect to your confidence in spotting tensions, by the way, I used the term "seems" as a softener too.


Softly yours,dmb



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