[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[Andre Broersen]

Bodvar to Arlo:

Arlo:
My point about substitution was that it creates some nonsensical 
statements, consider this from ZMM.

Bodvar:

Sure it creates nonsense, which proves that the Quality/MOQ "meta-
metaphysics is nonsense, Quality is the DQ of MOQ's DQ/SQ
configuration, like the S/O is  the SOM. You forgot to answer my
question if there were any world view that said that quality is not
reality?

Andre:
'The statement that Quality is reality itself does not follow logically from the statements that quality is not subjective or objective. That is why Pirsig never said this.( Annot. 117)

'...the belief that Quality equals reality came much later and was arrived at by a more complex process...There was an intermediate period where Phaedrus thought reality was three-termed, with subject, object and value- a 'blessed trinity' he called it....Later Phaedrus felt that three-termed realities are rather unwieldy (low quality) and rare in metaphysics, and tried to collapse them into one....He tried and he saw that it could be done. As time went on, he saw that not only could it be done, but that it solved huge philosophic problems that had dogged metaphysics for centuries. It produced harmony where there had bee disharmony. It had high intellectual quality'. (Annot.118)

And:

The question Keith asked is:'...is the reality equals Quality identity at odds in any way with the epistemological consideration that reality is not completely knowable intellectually?

To which Pirsig answers:'Not as long as Quality is not completely defined'. (Annot.119)