Re: Price gouging is beneficial.Graden gouging is great!

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:43:46 -0600, Bob LeChevalier wrote
(in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):

Porky Pig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:53:33 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You do not think philosophically about the range of your own comments,
>>> 
>>> Philosophy is for losers like you.
>> 
>> Yeah, don't let reason stand in the way of your emotions.
> 
> Absolutely.  My emotions render me superior to a machine.
> 
> "Reason" as in "philosophy" is totally dependent on the quality of the
> axioms.  Those who argue it typically choose axioms based on whether
> they support the results that the person wants.  Reject those axioms,
> and you may end up with the opposite conclusion.
> 
> lojbab
> 

Um,m,m - "premises" (because they're stronger than axioms.


It's the old deal that "If you accept my premises, you have - ipso facto - to 
accept my conclusion(s)." [At least while operating under Aristotelian logic]


Sweet Jenny pulled that one in a Philosophy of Religion class when she made 
reference to "Ground of Being" (it was safe - only the prof, his assistant 
(me) and Sweet Jenny had read Tillich).

However, the point she was making was that the fundamental "ground of being" 
- one's personal metaphysic (so to speak) /is/ "The grounds of one's being".




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