Er, Gravity *is* an idea. And that's the whole point. What newton added to
the transparent fact that apples fall was an idea expressed in mathematics:
viz, gravity. That this idea expressed in mathematics should *correspond
to* real life is wonderful. But that it *is* real life is ficxticous:
apples do not perform mathematical calculations.
E.
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> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:01:21 -0500
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> Subject: Re: MD Glenn, Platt, Ant and the creation of patterns
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> ROG:
> Yes. Just as the idea of gravity does not predate Sir Isaak.
>
> This is reasonable.
> But in ZMM Pirsig doesn't talk about the "idea of gravity". He talks about
> the law of gravity and gravitation itself. He has some very unusual ideas
> about these. I suggest that you've applied your own static filter to "fix"
> the MOQ wherever it seems nutty, silly, and daffy.
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