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From: ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx (COLIN WIGHT)
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:47:03 +0100
>Here's to all those fellow agonisers ... !!!!
Absolutely, and lets not forget what Feyerabend say on this issue:
"I regard the philosophical position of relativism as silly because it
assumes what never happens, namely no exchange. I also regard the
philosophical position of objectivism to be silly. They are two sides of the
same coin."
Also 'm' I can't fail to mention your latent empiricism (which to me might
appear as what Steve calls "vulgar", I of course, would not use such a term)
which is implicit in the claim:
>I would say that
>the only kind of truth probably not subject to much agonizing about is whether
>or not one's cat sleeps for 14 hours.
Really, and why is this claim not subject to too much agonising? 'm's
position seems to me to similar to Descartes, or Hume.
Still, if your happy here who I am to point out the problems of such a
metaphysics?
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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