----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: [PEN-L:22525] RE: Re: RE: Premises, Circularities etc was Re: Historical Materialism
Ian Murray wrote: >>> As Blaug and others have pointed out, the LTV [sic] has circularities of it's own.<<< I wrote:>>what circularities are those? and why is circularity bad, unless there is nothing to the theory but circularities? Physics and geometry, for example, both involve circularities (e.g. force is defined by mass times acceleration, but mass is defined by force/acceleration and acceleration is defined by force/mass).<< ==================== Take a peak at ETIR chapter 7; I'm not gonna sum up the chapter and all the other counter claims... Not all circularities are bad, true, but some are debilitating and clearly we are at an impasse regarding this issue.....Again. Ian
