[MD] Intellectual Level

[Platt Holden]

The MOQ overcomes the limitations of intellect by attributing a part of
knowledge, indeed the part that make knowledge possible, to that which is
nonconceptual and thus nonintellectual. That seems to be what critics of
Marsha, Bo, Mary and others either refuse to or can't grasp.

Platt

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:12 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Platt]
> Thus intellect us limited, as I said and Pirsig elaborated.
>
> [Arlo]
> S/O intellectual patterns are limited because they expect to exist without
> paradox or recursion. What Pirsig (and others) have shown is that there are
> better intellectual patterns than SOM, such as Pirsig's MOQ, that begin
> with
> "all this is just an analogy" and don't try to define the indefinable.
>
> Pirsig's MOQ is not free from paradox, it just doesn't try to "overcome"
> it, as
> the SOMists think they can. The "limitation" is the futile quest for
> paradox-free symbolic encoding, a fool's chase with no end.
>
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