Michael's comment is a very good example of an ability of human notions to be clearly communicated and understood on quite deep level of objectivity. I call it philosophical thinking. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Boris claims if X exists... Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:08:58 -0400 On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I despise the effect Heidegger achieved by his use of profound- > seeming, occult, opaque, and unexplained terminology. The line 'What > exists must be needed' is, call it, bogus. ... but it seems silly > and vacuous to say portentously, "If your cancer exists, it was > needed." Not if the needing is needed by the RNA/DNA of a cell that just has to grow bountifully. Your rebuttal example cleverly shifts the needing from whatever agent could generate a result (the tumorous growth) to the person ("you"). Not playing by the rules, Cheerskep. One (moi, for instance) can construe "What exists must be needed" to embrace the notion that the result is "needed" by the cause, in the sense that whatever the cause sets into motion or causation completes the cause, i.e., it is "needed" in the sense that it is inevitable or inexorable, given the cause. Ask the tumor, not the person with the tumor. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] ____________________________________________________________ Click to find local singles for dating, romance and fun http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYYwtSSqvzmXgSBq8GcTpvoZS ZKw4lXfN60fsTcBQi8jNBHHeD1J5G/
