[MD] Science - Delusions in Search of Theory

[Horse]

  Hi Platt and Arlo

To be picky about this and given Platt's previous assertion that SOM 
didn't exist until Pirsig described it, the time-line should be 
something like:

peyote-inspired revelation ->  critical thinking ->  MoQ ->  DQ/SQ

or something very similar. Neither MoQ nor DQ existed until after the critical thinking stage!

Horse



On 29/10/2010 15:19, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2010 at 21:54, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
>
>
> Interesting point, though, it was "critical thinking" that uncovered this
> inherent paradoxical core. And it was "critical thinking" that developed the
> Metaphysics of Quality from its initial peyote-inspired revelation.
>
> [Platt]
> What "developed" the MOQ was Dynamic Quality and Pirsig's response to it.
> Otherwise, the MOQ would be just another dull metaphysics like other
> intellectually guided ideologies. The missing ingredient from "critical
> thinking" is its ignorance of the moral force of DQ. From such ignorance the
> flaws of critical thinking flow, resulting, as Angell and Demetis expose, in a
> process "infested with paradoxes.".
>
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