[MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Marsha,

Hypothesis: an unproved scientific conclusion drawn from known facts and
used as a basis for further investigation or experimentation.

DQ is indefinable and not subject to any proof by logical investigation.

With the conception of DQ/SQ metaphysics, Pirsig redefines "hypothesis".
Quality is converted from an adjective to an indefinable noun.  Logic cannot
verify any definition of quality.

Only metaphysics can identify quality.  Knowable experience supplants the
hypothesis of quality reality.  I experience indefinable DQ and definable
SQ.

Joe  


On 8/26/12 12:53 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> I prefer to think of objects of knowledge (patterns) as hypothetical.  Once
> one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world is nothing but
> Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an individual transforms the
> natural tendency to reify self and world into the natural tendency to hold all
> static patterns of value to be hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real
> or true.)  By using 'hypothetical' I think there is less of a tendency toward
> intellectual arrogance.  Understanding static (patterned) value as
> hypothetical acknowledges the incompleteness of what we know and makes room
> for additional inquiry with new possibilities; it promotes an attitude of
> fearless curiosity: gumption.  It moves one away from thinking of entities as
> existing inherently and independent of consciousness.