On Aug 25, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Differing with their unfounded assumptions is just irrational :-)
No, but differing with reality is. :D
Hmm, how do I differ with reality?
Where did I say you did?
We differ. I was referring to assumptions of yours that I differ with. You responded to my reference with
"No, but differing with reality is. :D"
Actually what you said was:
"Its ironic to have someone who attacks those who have different a priori
presuppositions as a freethinker. One is free to think, only in so far as
one agrees with a particular freethinker. Differing with their unfounded
assumptions is just irrational :-)"
You used impersonal pronouns throughout, carefully and deliberately, which indicated to me that you were not necessarily referring to me directly.
Now if you were to say something like:
"I guess, Warren, that differing with your..."
why, I'd have to handle it more directly. However I don't know if you differ with reality and/or to what degree; I don't know you anywhere near well enough to come to any kind of conclusion on the subject. Therefore no, the above was not directed at you *unless you do in fact differ from reality* and know that you do.
It's irrefutable, however, that differing from reality is irrational.
It seems you're a trifle sensitive on the topic. I take it you've been burned before in other discussions with other people.
Well, I'm not those people.
OK, do atoms exist apart from humans.
I'd hope so. If not my chair couldn't be holding my weight.
How small a scale do you need to get to before reality ends?
Not sure. How small do things get before reality vanishes?
Our inability to perceive things smaller than a given scale doesn't mean they don't exist, so I'm not really sure where you're going with this.
-- WthmO
I've never held an opinion. I give them away freely. --
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