I was really interested in the nature and origin of Quality, does it exist in the concrete, the experiance of the concrete, the concept of the concrete or somewhere else - moving into the world of epistemology etc. Where we find ourselves inthralled by CI Lewis' "Mind and the World Order", and dabblings with Ayn Rand - who despite being an out and out Nazi does raise the questions as to whether we can seperate experiances before we have words for the concepts? Current argument is yes we can, but then suggest that words are not used, but tokens, which brings us back to the question what is a word apart from a token of concept, and when we share those conceptual tokens they become tokens of communication - and thus words. So one one level you can differentiate the concepts from each other without having seperate words, just so long as you have tokens, which systemically are words. The quality is not in the experiance nor in the concept but in that which joins them together, horseness is not the horse. Plato and Aristotle continue to argue - which brings us back to Pirsig and his mistake of trying to write for the common man. A lesson not learned by Lovelock. None of which makes any of my bikes work any better (or even work).
Saturday putting the Organic movement right...
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