From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 01:02:33 GMT
Erin
> And that "flaky" statement about certainty was YOUR
> response to my question of is there anything that MOQers would constitute
> as being certain. So if you are taking back that too then can you give me
> a couple of things you do know for certain.
I'm not taking it back. I thought everyone would recognized immediately
without explanation that it was self-contradictory. Then I pointed out to you
that it was self-contradictory. No reason to take it back at all: The
statement refutes itself.
> I got the math 2+ 2 thingy is certain, and some things are better than
> others thingy, but that is a little bit of a cop-out answer to me--- so far
> as more specifics --anything you want to list as you know for certain,
> anybody? we don't want to be all "flaky" here
The premise "some things are better than others" is a perfectly sound
premise on which to base a philosophy. You may not agree with it, but it
doesn't contradict itself. Why you consider it a "cop out" is a mystery to
me. It's the founding principle of the MOQ that can't be denied without
invoking it.
Platt
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