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- From: tyadav@athena.mit.edu (T.Y.)
- Subject: answers and Questions....(Re: Letting Someone Drown
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:30:55 GMT
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- hugh@mks.com (Hugh Brown) writes:
- >
- >The ethical question is not central to the debate. Resolution of this
- >question could not be satisfactorily achieved without gaining agreement on
- >Objectivist epistemology, knowledge, rationality, and objectivity. It is
- >pointless to continue any discussion of the moral questions unless a
- >corresponding effort is made to address the logically prior question.
-
- This is Really Important. And I so very very much wish that individuals
- (objectivists incl) understood what Hugh writes here.
-
- Too many, far too many presume (often implicitly, always incorrectly):
- [0.0] All questions are rational, objective, valid.
- [0.1] All questions are primary.
- [0.2] That reason works automatically. Premises are nonessential.
- [0.3] ......
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- Perhaps, initiators of future threads would do a great service to themselves
- and their cause if they would define/describe what their philosophical terms
- and concepts mean.
-
- T.Y.
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