[MD] The Hero's journey

[Matt Kundert]

DMB said:
I can see how these two passages might seem contradictory to 
those who haven't read Pirsig's books, to those who don't know this 
story. But you and Marsha should clearly see that this is an imaginary 
problem.

Matt:
Perhaps, then, you didn't read what I said.  Perhaps, though, you 
don't know what "misleading" means.  Perhaps, again, I have a 
greater sensitivity to, and desire to be sensitive to, the range of 
inferential pathways.

Matt

> RMP( 1991): "The MOQ is a continuation of the mainstream of twentieth century American philosophy, It is a form of pragmatism, of instrumentalism, which says the test of the true is the good. It adds that this good is not a social code or some intellectualized Hegelian Absolute. It is direct everyday experience." (Lila 366)
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> RMP (2005): 
> "The Metaphysics of Quality is not intended to be within any philosophic tradition, although obviously it was not written in a vacuum. ... The Metaphysics of Quality's central idea that the world is nothing but value is not part of any philosophic tradition that I know of. I  have proposed it because it seems to me that when you look into it carefully it makes more sense than all the other things the world is supposed to be composed of. One particular strength lies in its applicability to quantum physics, where substance has been dismissed but nothing except arcane mathematical formulae has really replaced it."  (RMP, 'A Brief Summary of the MOQ')