[MD] Intellectual Level

[david buchanan]

Why would you thank me? If I had any influence on your revision this definition would make a lot more sense to me. As I see it, you have defined the intellectual level so that Pirsig's solution is thrown out the window and the problem is re-established. You've confused the disease for the cure, thereby construing the MOQ as an anti-intellectual form of the metaphysics it opposes. It's hard to imagine how a person could be more mistaken.
 
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> Thanks to dmb I have slightly revised my definition:
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> Intellectual Static Patterns of Value are reified concepts and the rules 
> for their rational analysis and manipulation.  Intellectual patterns process 
> from a subject/object conceptual framework creating false boundaries 
> that give the illusion of independence as a “thing” or as an “object of 
> analysis.”  The fourth level is a formalized subject/object level (SOM), 
> where the paramount demand is for rational, objective knowledge, 
> which is free from the taint of any subjectivity.
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> Thanks,
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> Marsha