[MD] All the way down

[David Thomas]

On 12/17/10 12:29 PM, "Jan-Anders" <jananderses at telia.com> wrote:

> I wasn't kidding. Neither dicking.
> 
> My example was meant to show how quality can be defined as an event by
> using one of the basic elements of language. The concept of it.
> 
> What IT is. It as an event is defining itself as an event of two
> letters, in the right order, has a value when its used. The it event is
> realized. As quality is an event (a process with time included) it
> shouldn't be about reality but realization. A verb and not a noun.

Like in Merriam Websters online eighth definition of quality?

"8. the attribute of an elementary sensation that makes IT fundamentally
unlike any other sensation"
 
> I can't see anywhere in RMP's writing that Quality should be observed by
> something that is NOT an event, or activity. It takes an event to
> observe and define an event.

[Pirsig's final Lila words]

Good as a noun rather than an adjective is all the Metaphysics of Quality is
about. Of course, the ultimate Quality isn't a noun or an adjective or
anything else definable,(such as a verb) but if you had to reduce the whole
Metaphysics of Quality to a single sentence, that would be it. (a noun)

Dave