[MD] Philosophy and Abstraction

[Ian Glendinning]

Matt said
" I've just been trying to highlight a point of agreement."

I know. Problem may be (in my experience) that your interlocutor is
not looking for agreement.

PS I always associate "it's X all the way down" with Terry Pratchet's turtles.
Oh and Dan, Sad to hear you prefer dictionary definitions for
meaningful discussion, they too are stories all the way down, part of
our historical narrative that need to be unpicked, interpreted, retold
in different words and actions. So unlike you ?

Ian

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Matt Kundert
<pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey John,
>
> I don't know when the "it's X all the way down" slogan began or
> came from, but it's been used for everything in the last 30 years.
> Anti-Platonists like it to articulate their revulsion for a generalized
> Platonism that splits things into natural kinds (e.g., dualisms of
> various kinds).
>
>