[MD] Thus spoke Lila

MarshaV valkyr at att.net
Tue Dec 7 20:43:57 PST 2010


> On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:25 PM, MarshaV wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Arlo Bensinger wrote:
>> 
>>> [Arlo had asked]
>>> Just out of curiosity, do you think there are such things as "unreified concepts"?
>>> 
>>> [Marsha]
>>> I am not opposed to reification; it's a very useful intellectual tool.
>>> 
>>> [Arlo]
>>> If you answered the above question, I missed it. Do you think there
>>> are "unreified concepts"? And if not, why not just say "concepts"? 
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> Not "unreified' intellectual static (concepts) patterns of value.  
>> 
>  
> [Arlo]
> So if you think all concepts are reified, why do you say "reified concepts"?
> Why not just say "concepts"? 
> 
> Do you think Pirsig's ideas, "the MOQ", are concepts?
> 


Marsha:
You seem to have misrepresented my statement and reframed the issue.
I think you are more interested in scoring a point than an explanation, a
discussion or any type of understanding, so this conversation is over.  

 
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