All: I have often claimed that the purpose of philosophy is to uncover hidden assumptions. So it was with a sense of "I told you so" that I read in today's New York Times an essay by Stanley Fish entitled, "God Talk, Part 2" wherein he asserts, "Once the act of simply reporting or simply observing is exposed as a fiction -- as something that just can't be done -- the facile opposition between faith-thinking and thinking grounded in independent evidence cannot be maintained." His essay explains why this is inevitably the case.
I think it is good to keep in mind that no matter how strongly we believe that our way of viewing the world and obtaining knowledge is correct, our belief ultimately rests on a foundation of faith that has no bottom. That goes for the MOQ, too, although "Some things are better than others" is a fairly solid foundation compared to most. The essay is at: http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/god-talk-part-2/ Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
