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- From: robert@kohlrabi.tcs.com (Robert Blumen)
- Subject: Re: Evidence vs Faith
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.185928.4604@tcsi.com>
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- References: <C140Lo.C03@newcastle.ac.uk> <C14CK1.1CM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan20.001110.23983@tcsi.com> <C14zCx.LIy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:59:28 GMT
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- In article <C14zCx.LIy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
- > robert@kohlrabi.tcs.com (Robert Blumen) writes:
- >
- > >This is an insidious put-down. Like it or not, agree with them or not,
- > >most libertarians, free-market economists, objectivists, etc. have a
- > >variety of reasons based on economic theory, ethical arguments, historical
- > >and empirical evidence, political theory, etc. for preferring the market.
- > >Maybe they are wrong, maybe those on the left disagree with them, but they
- > >are not taking a position on faith.
- >
- > I'm sorry, but I can't pass this opportunity up. I'm willing to bet that
- > most Randites believe that there is no God and that any person who knows
- > that God exists is living based on faith (ie outside reason). The person
- > above said that the "faith" in the free market was based on 1) ethical
- > arguments, historical and empirical evidence, political theory, etc. this
- > leads to 2) a belief that is not based on faith.
-
- No this is not what I said. What I said was the a reasoned belief in the
- free market based on argumentes, evidence etc. is a reasoned belief. I did
- not say that a reasoned belief leads to faith.
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