[MD] Are There Bad Questions?: Pirsig

[Matt Kundert]

> Ron:
> The main thrust you keep missing is the value of making the distinction
> between the experience of being and the experience of explaination.

That is an excellent way of putting the problem many of us 
often feel with Bo's interpretation.  In scholasticism, it was 
the distinction between the ordo essendi and the ordo 
cognoscendi.  The relation between the two has caused 
philosophical trouble for a long time, but the reduction of 
essendi to cognoscendi, being to knowing (or explanation) 
is a good way of putting the thesis of idealism.  The 
experience of Bo's philosophy is perhaps a good suggestion 
about why we should avoid idealism.  

This doesn't mean Bo doesn't say true things, or get Pirsig 
right occasionally, or have the right to his own philosophical 
views.  It's just one more attempt to try and do justice to my 
personal sense that Bo's general ambiance is wrong-headed, 
just as Bo's calling me a "philosophologist" (which also echoes 
the feelings of many here) is Bo's attempt to do justice to his 
personal sense that the general ambiance in my writing is 
wrong-headed.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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