[MD] On Pragmatism

[Matt Kundert]

Well, I simply spoke as someone that's read a reasonable amount of Fish's writings.  So, not "anybody's guess," because I'm guessing my guesstimation is a little more like, as they say, an educated guess.

And your quote from Pirsig is perfect: "universal" comes from "complete agreement," which is no Platonic method, and gives you no power to turn the universalness of Quality into a weapon.  Because as soon as "agreement" is broken, so does any power in the saying that it is a "universal source" evaporate.

Matt


> "Quality, on which there is complete agreement, is a universal source of 
> things." (Lila, 6)
> 
> What Fish really "meant by 'first principle' " is anybody's guess.
> 
> Platt
 		 	   		  
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