[MD] Moq_Discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 138

[Jan-Anders]

Hi Dave

moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org skrev 2010-12-17 21.04:
>> >  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"
No, "it" is an event that has similarities with any event.
>
>> >  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
Exact, but "it" as verb, making a complete sentence. It.

I know that it's my addition to make the Metaphysic toolbox work in 
practice.

Jan-Anders