[MD] Philosophy and Abstraction

[Steven Peterson]

Matt:
> Hey, you smell scientific materialism all over analytic philosophy.  I
> smell Platonism over a lot of the formulations of mysticism.  Both of
> us want to say that, for the most part, those smells are wafting from
> adjacent compartments to the ones we're actually interested in.
> Since neither one of us wants to defend either scientific materialism
> or Platonism, why can't we just let the other work their end of the
> street, follow their own predilections?  (Well, it's because you think
> I'm massively screwing up Pirsig.  I'm not sure how to argue about
> that anymore, since it seems to have so much do with elusive smells.)

Steve:
Well said. That's how I see it too.