[MD] A fly in the MOQ ointment

[MarshaV]

Hello Steve,

On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Steven Peterson wrote:

> 
> Pirsig's intellect--the manipulations of symbols--does not require us
> to attach any ontological significance to the symbols as subjective
> stuff and material stuff. To the MOQer, the symbols don't refer to any
> kind of "stuff." The symbols are patterns of value, and they stand for
> more patterns of value.  There is no "stuff" to speak of except as a
> sort of pattern of value. It is patterns all the way down.
> 


If this is true, it becomes the net-of-jewels, or like the water analogy: if
all is water, or analogy, there would be no distinction discernible as a 
boundary.  Intellectual patterns create false boundaries, giving the 
illusion of independence, or 'thingness'.  
 
 

Marsha 
 
 
 







 
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