[MD] absolute Quality

[MarshaV]

Mark, 


Marsha:
I think of Anthony's statement "Quality is seen as absolute" as pointing to Dynamic Quality, or Buddhist's Ultimate Truth.  As such, he is indicating what is indeterminate, or not further analyzable, and, therefore, what exists in an ultimate sense.  It is beyond what can be conceptualized, what is beyond the conceptual horizon.  I believe that was what was meant by using the word "absolute".  But I could be wrong.  

Static patterns, or provisional truths, represent what is analyzable and, therefore, what exists in a relative or conventional sense.  It is the result of mental interpretation. It is always understood as an object of conceptual thought.  

Dynamic Quality is unknowable, undividable and undefinable.  Personally, I do not think it appropriate to mix the two types of truths (static and Dynamic) in the same explanation.  It gets too confusing, so I have nothing to say about Dynamic Quality.  



Marsha 



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Anthony writes:
“Intellectual values include truth, justice, freedom, democracy and, trial by jury. It’s worth noting that the MOQ follows a pragmatic notion of truth so truth is seen as relative in his system while Quality is seen as absolute.  In consequence, the truth is defined as the highest quality intellectual explanation at a given time.

RMP:
If the past is any guide to the future this explanation must be taken provisionally; as useful until something better comes along. One can then examine intellectual realities the same way he examines paintings of in an art gallery, not with an effort to find out which one is the ‘real’ painting, but simply to enjoy and keep those that are of value. There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result our history and current patterns of values. (Pirsig, 1991, p.103)”

      (McWatt, Anthony,MOQ Textbook)