[MD] Thus spoke Lila

[Platt Holden]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Horse <horse at darkstar.uk.net> wrote:

> How do you do this then, as all understanding is post-experience and
> intellectual? What is pre-logical, pre-conceptual is not knowledge, because
> knowledge (knowing) is post-experiential and intellectual.
>
> On 11/12/2010 17:11, Platt Holden wrote:
>
>> ...never understanding  the mystic reality of prelogical,preconceptual
>> knowledge
>
>
Platt

Hi Horse,
I thought I had pretty well covered this in my previous post in response to
your question about my take on reality. The type of knowledge I refer to is
not SOL intellectual scientific rational knowledge but rather mystic
knowledge. Pirsig expressed it thusly:

"For the MOQ this is, "Some things are better than others." Every infant
knows this before he learns his first word "

In other words, knowledge by illumination as Augustine put it, or by
intuition as Susanne Langer described it. Knowledge which is beyond reason
as well as sense data, knowledge of the truths of mathematical axioms for
instance, or of the existence of ideals like beauty and goodness, or the
validity of the very distinction between truth and falsehood.

Or, the knowledge every musician like yourself understands when the right
note is struck at the right time.

Enough for today. I apologize for exceeding your rule of no more than two
posts on SOL in a day.




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