[MD] Words and concepts

[MarshaV]

On Jun 8, 2011, at 7:04 PM, david buchanan wrote:


> "Definitions are the FOUNDATION of reason. You can't reason without them." (Emphasis is Pirsig's. ZAMM, page 214.)

Marsha:
I use a dictionary all the time.  I agree that you cannot reason without definitions.  How bright of you to understand that.   



> "A metaphysics must be divisible, definable and knowable, or there isn't any metaphysics." (Pirsig in Lila, page 64.) 		 	   		  

"Since a metaphysics is essentially a kind of dialectical definition and since Quality is essentially outside definition, this means that a 'Metaphysics of Quality' is essentially a contradiction in terms, a logical absurdity."  (LILA, Chapter 5)

 
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