[MD] All the way down

[Matt Kundert]

Thanks Marsha.  When I sit down to right amateurishly about general 
philosophy, I seem to always fall into the pattern of distinguishing 
Platonists and Sophists as archetypes and working from there.  I'm 
not completely comfortable about that pattern in my writing, and in 
Rhetorical Universalism I became worried the dialectic between the 
two was becoming too complicated, like I was losing control of the 
sense.

Happy Holidays

Matt

> From: valkyr at att.net
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:49:38 -0500
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] All the way down
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> Hi Matt,
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> Your Pirsig Affliction posts were excellent.  I had no justification 
> for mentioning that obscure and convoluted Margolis book.  These 
> threads, though, remind me again of the Lila soliloquy but with an 
> East/West twist rather than gender.  The West tends to be 
> philosophically playing around the edges, and won't go to the 
> center, like say Nagarjuna...    
> 
> Beautiful papers!
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> Marsha  
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> On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:07 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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> > Hi Matt,
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> > From where i sit now, I'm back to "It’s worth noting that the MOQ follows a pragmatic notion of truth so truth is seen as relative in his system while Quality is seen as absolute.	In consequence, the truth is defined as the highest quality intellectual explanation at a given time."  That's relative, not random.  I'll give your papers a try.  But I must say something about style.  A while back I read a half-dozen books on relativism.  The majority were well written and helpful.  Margolis was the only author whose style seemed affected; I thought maybe he wrote with his head up is butt.  
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> > Marsha 
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