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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: Re: Deliberate Ignorance
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan28182032@anhur.sics.se>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:20:32 GMT
- References: <C1I1HA.DJz@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> <C1JEup.5yK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- In-Reply-To: czeller@ih-nxt05.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 28 Jan 93 00:04:01 GMT
-
- In article <C1JEup.5yK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> czeller@ih-nxt05.cso.uiuc.edu
- (Christopher M Zeller) writes:
-
- >We encourage challenges,
- >but if certain statements are logically derived, assuming that their
- >premisis upon which their logic is based is correct, only by overturning
- >those premisis, can they be proven untrue.
-
- Judging by these comments, you believe in the existence of Objectivist
- statements logically derived from Objectivist premisses. I have a special
- interest in this, and I wonder if you could give an example of such a
- derivation?
-
- >(i.e. it is unlikely that
- >Newton's laws will be overturned, however they were ammended whith the
- >discovery of quantum mechanics.)
-
- I don't see that any sense can be made of this, but I don't suppose it
- is essential to any explanation of Objectivist logical derivations.
-