[MD] The Quality of Free Will

[david buchanan]

Dave T. axed:
So if Marsha merely substituted "stable" for "static" to correct for Pirsig's error in her definition Are you still dogmatically opposed to it?

dmb says:
Yes, I'm still opposed to it and for the same reason. This opposition is not motivated by dogma, however. It's only driven by a decent respect for logic and the english language. 
As Pirsig uses the term "static", it already means "stable" and "ordered" and at no point does he ever assert that anything is permanent, fixed or eternal. Your correction is not a correct at all. It is still makes no sense to describe "stable patterns" as ever-changing. Ever-changing means no stability at all. In terms of what he statement MEANS, she is literally defining stability as a total lack of stability.
If you're not opposed to that, then you don't have any respect for words or logic either.