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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gray Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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<On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:43:46 -0600, Bob LeChevalier wrote
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<> "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.
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<> lojbab
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<Um,m,m - "premises" (because they're stronger than axioms.
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<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]
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<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).
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<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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Folgers?


-- cary