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  3. From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
  4. Subject: Re: what i think of ayn rand
  5. In-Reply-To: czeller@ih-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:33:04 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan28041118@anhur.sics.se>
  7. Sender: news@sics.se
  8. Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
  9. References: <1993Jan26.172804.1992@sctc.com> <C1J7v4.1H9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:11:18 GMT
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  13. In article <C1J7v4.1H9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> czeller@ih-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu
  14.  (Christopher M Zeller) writes:
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  16.    >Emotionally coercive?! Isn't that what rhetoric is all about? Without 
  17.    >any set form of mathematical, logical method for proving a philosophy
  18.    >that is all we are left with.
  19.  
  20.   Arguments take many forms, and need not be either "logical proof" or
  21. "emotional coercion".
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