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Quote from TROM book:
*The PD postulates.* These are the hidden postulates in life; not because any attempt is being made to hide them, but merely because man the materialist cannot fit them into his theories about life, and so tends to discount their existence. Everyone knows about SD postulates, but few suspect the existence of their PD twins at the other end of the comm line. Thus, being unknown or generally ignored, they tend to be highly effective. For example, how many people can resist a stray cat who wanders in and looks at you with his big, pleading eyes? You don’t know it but that sudden urge to get him a saucer of milk and a nice warm home is more his PD postulate than your SD one! Animals, being entirely natural, and not being educated to the contrary, use their PD postulates to the full, thus making willing slaves out of us "Oh so much more intelligent and rational" humans. Here Dennis is wrong re: the cat's PDP. The domesticated cat is not operating on his postulate. The domesticated cat is operating on the postulates of his domesticator. The domesticated cat is trained to want and depend on how his trainer trained him. Training and domestication are implanted postulates. If you disagree with my statement, answer this question: Ever see a wild cat come up to you and beg for a saucer of milk? Babies too are masters of the PD postulate; they have yet to be educated out of their belief in the efficacy of such things. This one too: Dennis' viewpoint is very warped or aberrated. Babies don't believe. The parents made the baby and are therefore responsible for the babies needs to survive.
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