[MD] Intellectual Level

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Mark]
> Before I can address this, could you please explain what in particular you
> are presenting by the phrase "what Pirsig has offered"?
>
> [Arlo]
> How is this confusing, it simply means what Pirsig himself wrote about (in
> this case) the intellectual level.
>
> In this case, Pirsig wrote, ".. .the greatest meaning can be given to the
> intellectual elvel if it is confined to the skilled manipulation of abstract
> symbols that have no corresponding particular experience and which behave
> according to rules of their own".
>
> [Mark]
> At the same time what is your interpretation of Pirsig's Intellectual
> level?
>
> [Arlo]
> I am in agreement with Pirsig.
>
>
[Mark, new]
We may have had this conversation before because I remember asking the same
follow-up question.  Could you give me an example of an abstract symbol that
has no corresponding particular experience?  Please do not quote Pirsig,
provide me your own interpretation.

I do not know where you are coming from, it doesn't seem coherent and Adrie
would say.

Mark

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