[MD] Imaginings

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Craig]
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 
'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' ( 
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass")

[Arlo]
So when you read "the Allah that can be named....", you think it 
refers to nothing more than applying a phonetic marker, such as 
"Joe"? Geez, I'm not even sure what possible significance such a 
statement could hold then...

By the way, the Pirsig quote you find irrelevant (as it says 
"defined" and not "named") goes on in full..

"The quality that can be defined is not the Absolute Quality.
That was what he had said.
The names that can be given it are not Absolute names." (ZMM)

I'll also add that it is definitional boundaries that contain the 
"named" thing. The very act of distinction is definitional. The 
applicaiton of a phoentic sound ("Joe") can only occur after a sound 
definition of "what Joe is" and "what Joe is not" has been 
established. The very application of the analytic knife produces definition.

"You get the illusion that all those parts are just there and are 
being named as they exist. But they can be named quite differently 
and organized quite differently depending on how the knife moves." 
(ZMM)... And how the "knife moves" is definitional.