[MF] Where is metaphysics in the MOQ?

[Steve Mack]

Remember also, that with "...can certainly provide road maps for all that has been", this DOES NOT encompass 'lost' civilisations nor pre-cartographic eras.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matt Kundert 
  To: moq_focus at moqtalk.org 
  Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:55 AM
  Subject: Re: [MF] Where is metaphysics in the MOQ?


  Kevin,

  In your knowledge/language/wisdom tripartite, you say that wisdom is 
  "essentially limitless."  I would take that to be an important statement.  
  And in that statement, I would take it to be impossible for anything to 
  "provide for an understanding of all that has ever been, all that is and all 
  that ever will be," which you say is the function of a metaphysics, or "road 
  map of reality."  We can certainly provide road maps for all that has been, 
  the past, and use the road maps to help us with all that is, the present, 
  but it would be a bad idea indeed to think you could predict the limits and 
  scope of all that ever will be, pigeon hole everything before it has even 
  happened.  That was the pratfall of traditional metaphysics.  Kant thought 
  he could pigeon hole everything by tracing the outlines of the possibilty of 
  knowledge, language, etc.  I take such tracings to be pointless when 
  confronted with new experiences.  As long as there is cultural change, 
  philosophy will never be out of a job in trying to get the old mixed with 
  the new, but philosophy should drop the pretension that it can reduce the 
  new to the old.  There is genuine newness, novelty.  I take geniuses to be 
  expanding the range of our experience, poets as using metaphors to expand 
  our language beyond the inferential limits of the currently encrusted 
  literalness.

  The metaphysics, or knowledge, in Pirsig's philosophy is represented by the 
  static patterns.  The wisdom is represented by the static patterns 
  interactions with each other in the dynamic present.

  Matt

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