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- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.111613.641@cine88.cineca.it>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:16:13 +0100
- References: <qHm2TB1w165w@pinn.nacjack.gen.nz> <Stafford-131192112127@stafford.winona.msus.edu>
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- In article <Stafford-131192112127@stafford.winona.msus.edu>, Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
- > In article <qHm2TB1w165w@pinn.nacjack.gen.nz>, glex@pinn.nacjack.gen.nz
- > (glenn dillon) wrote:
- >>
- >>
- >> We all know ourselves, our own minds much better than we can ever learn
- >> from the minds of other people or animals. We are continually with
- >> ourselves, we can continually examine our own reactions, mistakes, and
- >> anylyse them (If we are honest enough with ourselves).
- >
- > Not so. Consider it possible that there are persons who are
- > outer-motivated
- > and outer-directed who will never introspect to a _significant_ extent and
- > that some of these people find a comfortable and respectable career in
- > the hard sciences.
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- Are you joking? Nobody can be outer-motivated or -directed without having
- dicided and deciding continually to behave in this way.
-