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Why I Enter The Coffee Shop

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I enter the coffee shop. As I look around the room, I notice in the far left corner two men occupying a table. They seem to be engaged in an intent discussion. Both are clearly perplexed; bent forward with furrowed brows they shake their heads in disagreement at one another. Being a rather nosey person I can’t help but investigate. After ordering a cup of coffee, I pick up a dusty, crinkled paper and conveniently select the table adjacent to theirs. I chuckle to myself. To an outsider it will appear as though I am completely engrossed in reading the paper; nobody will uncover my secret and rather embarrassing intention: to eavesdrop.

I soon gathered that the gentlemen on the right went by the name of Phaedrus (Pirsig’s Phaedrus) and the …show more content…

According to your belief, because quality is not definable and is is not based on pure transcendental knowledge, it is false. Nevertheless, I will attempt to explain to you where your principles seem to fall short. Quality is scientifically immeasurable and therefore cannot or must not be defined. However this does not mean it doesn’t exist or that it cannot be justified. I now invite you to picture a world where good and bad has been removed. On the principles of realism, “a thing exists of a world cannot function without it normally”. I will attempt to show you the way in which this principle applies to the existence of quality. A world without good and bad would be meaningless and without purpose. Art, sports, dance, comedy, flavor, in fact all that relies on the senses would be ruined. The masses would not be able to tell what was good from bad, funny from boring, bland from savory; life would be utterly boring. Although the world can function without quality it clearly cannot function normally, therefore, quality indeed exists regardless if it is defined or not. In fact Quality is what makes up reality, it is the parent of knowledge, the source of all subjects and objects.

Plato: Such a notion is ridiculous. Truth is based on fixed and defined principles. What you describe as quality are ever changing sensory experiences and therefore cannot be justified without a preceding base of

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