[MD] The Tao of Quality - Verse 1

[Ian Glendinning]

DMB, you said

QUOTE
And that's why I keep insisting that I'm only talking about the words
and concepts (static patterns) in Pirsig's work and not reality
itself, which must remain undefined and undivided.

This is a philosophical discussion group, not a monastery. All we have
are words, definitions and concepts.
UNQUOTE

But the VAST majority of reality lies outside both this discussion
group and outside a monastery.

In the real world.

I've said before I have no problem with the "academic" philosophers
debating definitions of words within their metaphysics (the
intellectual pattern called the MoQ)

It's just that many of us really are more interested in how that
philosophy applies in that real world. I hope in MD these are seen as
different sure, but NOT mutually exclusive.

Ian