[MD] Definitions.

[David Thomas]

> On 2/20/13 8:36 AM, "David Buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> DMB
>> Here is dmb's much simpler (and non-contradictory) definition of static
>> patterns:
>> Static patterns of value are deductions derived from experience.
> 
> D:
> Do these "deductions" and the conceptual ordering of them ever change?
> 
DMB off list responded:

Off line answer just because I don't want to spend my post allowance on a
one-word answer: Yes.

D:
Thank you. 

So all your ranting to about this issue is what James characterizes as
"vicious intellectualism." Because if "static patterns of value" or
"deductions" change, it is misleading or confusing to "characterized [them]
by a fixed or stationary condition", "static."  Additionally it is Pirsig's
error not Marsha's.

That was all I was trying to establish.

Thank you again,

Dave