[MD] Dog Dishes and Direct Experience

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Hi Matt,
I agree which is why any metaphysics can not be considered relative.  It becomes defunct before one starts.  A metaphysics is something one operates within, not something one views from the "outside", for that "outside" is just another metaphysics.  Metaphysics is that from which there is no view out.

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Mark

On Dec 31, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Matt Kundert <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Matt said:
> The quickest way, perhaps, to articulate the thought behind this is to 
> point at the unboundedness of Quality/DQ.
> 
> Joe said:
> When I read the sentence below [above], I immediately thought of 
> conceptual reality and decided "unboundedness of Quality/DQ" 
> eviscerates metaphysics and throws me into a faith mode.  Evolution 
> as the format of intelligibility is a boundary of order or knowledge if 
> you prefer.
> 
> Matt:
> Kinda' like I just responded to Mark, I don't think broadening the 
> notion of "faith" to such an extent is very useful for very long.  In this 
> case, I would say that the unboundedness of Quality/DQ eviscerates 
> _Platonic_ metaphysics, a particular conception of how reality works.  
> This particular conception, first given explicit and quasi-systematic 
> form by Plato, is the notion that whatever account of reality we 
> create can comprehensively circumscribe all of its temporal 
> manifestations.  (This is, essentially, omniscience, but it also includes 
> the quest for absolute certainty.)  Once one kicks the habit of thinking 
> that's a good way of thinking about one's account of reality, though, it 
> is unclear to me why account-giving (i.e. metaphysics) becomes 
> eviscerated or impossible or impotent, which is what such a 
> broadened notion of Faith seems to suggest.
> 
> Matt                         
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