Dear Mr Sorensen What is the difference then? Best Regards Andrew Lancaster Message text written by Steve Sorensen ... I daresay you answered your own...
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Andrew Lancaster
100761.200@...
May 1, 2000 11:29 am
Dear Mr Sorensen, Doesn't this mean that if law-abidingness is not "ordinary" for your city, in the same way as church may or may not be ordinary, then you...
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Andrew Lancaster
100761.200@...
May 1, 2000 11:36 am
Dear Mr Sorensen Mr Wenger speaks much more clearly than me below, and I think his post can be taken to represent what I wanted to say, although I may have...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 1:33 pm
... Between knowledge and correctness? Opinions can be correct. Knowledge is always correct. Thus correctness can be an attribute of opinion as well as...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 1:33 pm
... Look, this is the same thing you accused me of with respect to civil disobedience--that in arguing that one must ordinarily teach law abidingness one is...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 1:33 pm
... You claim most people do not care about the injustices of a minority in general, and especially when they benefit from them, and that thus they are not...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 4:31 pm
... It's not listed in the list of virtues, but doesn't A appeal to piety as a ground for publically disagreeing with his friend Plato? If men without piety...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 5:16 pm
... The voters elected them, of course, but in our own American situation at present, a more salient question might be, How were they nominated? To do my civic...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 5:23 pm
... The issue is more complex than that. With respect to the question of the making of good laws, the education of the legislators will matter more than the...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 5:34 pm
... I'm afraid I'm not really following you. Not all tribal orders forbid cannibalism, of course. Tribal society might be taken to represent the ultimate in...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 5:35 pm
... Bad laws loosely obeyed _is_ a possible solution to the problem posed by injustice - the question is, when or under what circumstances is it the best...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:22 pm
... In the very worst-case scenario, if being is random, chaotic and godless, if Nietzsche is right about everything fundamental, then at the very least what...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:25 pm
... I don't know, but I do think that any answer must assume some kind of teleology (if not Aristotelian, then some kind). Otherwise life begins to look like...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:32 pm
... I must have a teleology to avoid the abyss. (Of course, there is no apriori guarantee that I can avoid the abyss.) It seems to me that for things to have...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:47 pm
... Dear Mr. Grant, But they do not formally secede - they seem to be leading a strictly private life, then. And yet, their choices have political...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:52 pm
... This is a tricky question, I agree. A body is a corpse when it's quite dead - ie, when it can't be resuscitated. If we get to the point where we can clone...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 6:52 pm
... Knowledge is that which can be directly perceived to be such that it could not conceivably be otherwise. Doesn't that meet the case? Regards, Dan Watkions...
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Scot Zentner
zentner@...
May 1, 2000 8:07 pm
... but seceding--cf. Strauss at the end of *LAM.* And that is not an unreasonable response to our current degradation ... private life, then. And yet, their...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
May 1, 2000 8:34 pm
Thanks for Mr. Zentner for his comments. I did just mean what one might call "informal" secession--usually manifested in activities like home schooling, an...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 9:01 pm
... It could, if anything "directly perceived" could be known by virtue of that perception that it could not be otherwise. But the problem is that what is...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 9:01 pm
... In the primaries, by the same citizens who later elected them. -- Regards, Steve Sorensen...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 1, 2000 9:01 pm
... Why is this a problem only with leaving abortion up to the states? If not the states then who? What makes you think the US Congress will find your...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 10:17 pm
... Well, appearance is replaced by another appearance. ... Yes - and I don't see that the problem is resolved in the Theaetetus. Regards, Dan Watkins...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 10:57 pm
... The difference is that the Constitution specifies "life," not quickening, or the third trimester, or whatever else it may be (if we can't assume that the ...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 1, 2000 11:10 pm
... Yes, this is what I mean. South Carolina and the other Confederate States were not constitutionally free to "vote themselves out," as, apparently, Quebec...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 2, 2000 2:36 am
... The Constitution specifies human life, not life simply. You cannot escape the question of when human life begins by appeal to science. As I keep saying,...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
May 2, 2000 2:36 am
... What problem? I think the definition of knowledge as perception is refuted. -- Regards, Steve Sorensen...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 2, 2000 5:15 am
... ?! Where? I read it twice on your recomendation and missed this refutation. (The "knowledge as perception" thesis doesn't get an adequate presentation -...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins5@...
May 2, 2000 5:53 am
... It's not a question of escaping anything. I think that I can resolve the question of when human life begins by appeal to science (which can tell us when...
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philebus@...
May 2, 2000 2:11 pm
Dear Mr. Sorensen, As I suspected, we are on the same page viz. problems with teleology. What I meant by "addressing the soul etc" is that teleology as ...
