[MD] Really? Is that all there is?

[MarshaV]

dmb,

On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:34 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> dmb says:
> Quality (DQ) is not a tenant. It remains undefined but it is the central term around which all of the MOQ's conceptual furniture is arranged. It remains undefined because it refers to pre-conceputal experience but definitions always involve concepts. It is undivided experience, which is to say experience prior to the distinctions of consciousness. But a metaphysical system is going to be nothing but concepts and definitions, so we are talking about the distinctions, definitions and ideas presented in Pirsig's books, not the primary empirical reality itself, not Dynamic Quality itself. And this point is very much part of the distinction. Static quality is supposed to be definable and we want to be able to distinguish one idea from another. This is not a matter of dogmatism or rigidity but simply a matter of clarity and accuracy about what these books say and don't say. It's not that fancy.


Oh, don't in practice you mean RMP's books, and James's books and those books you've read, by other authors, who interpret James?  (Charlene says...)  And I suppose also books on American Pragmatism that you deem important?  Whatever suits your agenda?  Give it up shortcake.  You are at the very least a hypocrite.   
 
 
Marsha