[MD] Intellectual Level

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt]
On the contrary. You confuse a metaphysical stance with its symbols.

[Arlo]
As I just pointed out to Marsha, Pirsig has said, "A subject-object metaphysics
is in fact a metaphysics in which the first division of Quality - the first
slice of undivided experience ­ is into subjects and objects." (LILA)

He goes on, "What he had seen is that there is a metaphysical box that sits
above these two boxes, Quality itself. And once he'd seen this he also saw a
huge number of ways in which Quality can be divided. Subjects and objects are
just one of the ways." (LILA)

SOM is a particular metaphysical stance about the "fundamental" division of
"reality". You continue to confuse this with the "subjects" and "objects" of
grammar. "SOM" has nothing to do with an intellectual pattern that is expressed
symbolically via grammar.

[Platt]
It places the conceptually unknown within the moral hierarchy. Otherwise DQ has
no home.

[Arlo]
Are you saying that in Pirsig's MOQ, "DQ has no home" because the intellectual
level is not SOM? I don't think in Pirsig's MOQ DQ is without a home, as he
himself says of his MOQ, "static and Dynamic Quality [are] the fundamental
division of the world".