Stephen,
Thanks for the URL, but it needs a www. This one will work better
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/postmod.tru.htm
Dennis
Dennis M. Goff
Dept. of Psychology
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Lynchburg, VA 24503
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Black [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 11:31 AM
> To: TIPS
> Subject: Daniel C. Dennett, postmodernism, viruses, and attachments
>
> (I hope everyone notices that I got his name right for once).
>
> I just received a private note from a TIPSter saying that she received
> my post on Dennett as an attachment and, what with Happy (and we're
> not talking dwarfs, here) and Melissa on the loose, she sure as heck
> wasn't going to click on it. Well, she was more polite about it, but
> that was the gist.
>
> So I want to declare that I never sent it as an attachment, I believe
> my mailer is incapable of sending it as an attachment and (note added
> as proof), the copy I received of my own message did not arrive with
> an attachment. So this means that some people's providers are
> converting perfectly ordinary e-mail messages into attachments. I
> don't think I'll be giving away the TIPSter's identity when I say that
> she had an AOL address. So don't blame me, blame AOL. Given that
> messages from me originate from a UNIX (Linux, actually) source, I
> believe that my messages will always be safe, even if converted by AOL
> into an attachment (Marc, is that right?).
>
> But I was asked to provide a summary of my message. No need, really.
> You can get the original essay at:
>
> http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/postmod.tru.htm
>
> where it's probably presented in a better format anyway.
>
> But as a quick overview (and other TIPSters can provide a more
> informative or accurate summary if they like), Dennett's essay is
> about the misguided and dangerous nature of the postmodern and
> multiculturalist view that there is no such thing as truth--it all
> depends.
>
> Although I didn't say so in my original post, the essay is in fact
> relevant to recent comments on this list regarding supposed
> differences between "Eurocentric" and "Afrocentric" views of
> psychology and science.
>
> -Stephen
>
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