[MD] The Word is Not the Thing

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[ platt] 
> The MOQ is an SOM document based on SOM reasoning. 

[Pirsig, LC 132n.] 
> [The MoQ] employs SOM reasoning 

I think both Platt & Pirsig are importantly wrong here & Arlo right. 
IMHO we should restrict the phrase "SOM reasoning" to cases 
where the S/O division is taken as fundamental. 
In the MoQ this is obviously not the case.  As Pirsig says elsewhere, 
SOM is subsumed by the MoQ. 
Craig