I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.Robert M. Pirsig
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent fabulously more coherent when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world.... ... but showing that, of course, was a very big job.
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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
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