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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!lbn
  2. From: lbn@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (generic fellow)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Ayn Rand
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.040444.15973@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 04:04:44 EST
  7. References: <9211102031.07@rgm.com> <62020@mimsy.umd.edu>
  8. Distribution: talk
  9. Organization: Cornell University
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  11.  
  12. In article <62020@mimsy.umd.edu>,
  13. mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes: 
  14.  
  15. > In the second place, your personal experience isn't necessarily as good as
  16. > anyone else's.  Indeed, with respect to conversion, someone else's
  17. > experience typically starts out having priority, in much the same way that
  18. > any other information passed on authority-- like the morning paper--
  19. > initially has priority.
  20. > 
  21. > The evidence is that people convert, and hence move from not experiencing to
  22. > experiencing.  Hence, simple lack of personal experience is not necessarily
  23. > good evidence by itself.
  24.  
  25. never mind the matter of _what_ they are experiencing.
  26.  
  27. as for the question of authority, which i addressed in a previous post
  28. which either died or was ignored, that of Faith, unlike the others you
  29. tend to mention, permit no grounds whatsoever within their domain for
  30. refutation.  other authorities are found incapable of denying, even in
  31. their own missives, their fallibility.  consideration of the supernatural,
  32. therefore, requires the mere acceptance or rejection of knowledge, rather
  33. than an interaction with the process of knowing, which you seem to abdicate
  34. with a throwing up of hands.
  35.  
  36. regards,
  37. dave
  38.  
  39.