Subject: Re: gods and men
From: Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 19:28:47 EST
--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> Well, yeah, I agree, Ed. The ability to "reason" is
> innate. Part of our
> discussion here is defining our terms. There's
> "reasoning" as a thing that
> we thinking animals are born able to do. Then
> there's the "doing" of it --
> and the "doing" of it is socially constructed. And
> then, beyond that, is the
> discipline of formal logic. That is also socially
> constructed, but the
> people who originally did the "constructing"
> (Aristotle actually invented the
> discipline) felt that they were making a "discovery"
> more than "building
> something" (creating an artifice, something
> artificial).
>
> But either way we have to account for what it is and
> where it comes from.
> And why we think it's so darn good :)
>
> Jim
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Thanks Jim. And anyone else too who may reply. I've
more to say on this but may respond off-list since I'm
probably horning in on a discussion that may be a lot
more advanced. What I may post could make everyone
feel like they've got to be polite and respond (and
don't want to do) remedially like some starving PHd
candidate in front of Philosophy 101 section at 8:30
AM on a Monday. I don't want that if you all are in
the middle of something that is ongoing. And since
I'm at work, paper pushing, yadda, yadda, yadda, I'll
have to respond later on. Have a good weekend all.
- Ed
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