[Vision2020] News Article, Mental Illness, Fixation of Belief Discussion

[Art Deco]

Please see my previous reply to Jousha Nieuwsma.

Wayne Fox


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Jones" <credenda@moscow.com>
To: "'Vision 20/20'" <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] News Article, Mental Illness, Fixation of Belief
Discussion


> Wayne Fox says:
>
> > If you want to ignore logic as it now exists, then don't be a
> hypocrite and
> > use it when it suits your purpose but disown it when it does not.
> >
> > If you respond to message with an argument, you will make my point
> very
> > nicely.
>
> You recite this mantra regularly, but it still just assumes what you're
> trying to prove: namely, that there are only two options for arguing --
> traditional logic or chaos. But those aren't the only two choices. Other
> universes can provide order, distinctions, communicability, arguments,
> epistemological norms, etc. and need not invoke your rather narrow and
> abstract notion of impersonal logical necessity, a rather odd,
> nonevolutionary force in your cosmos.
>
> But in the end, you've already killed what you claim you want. You've
> made your law of noncontradiction into butter -- squishy, relative,
> changing, and somehow invisible but visible too. Your main argument
> should be with yourself, not me. You've gutted the god you worship.
>
>
> > I freely admit in hoping for certain truths but not being able to
> prove
> > them,
>
> Quite a concession. Then why get hot and bothered by mental illness? It
> says the same as you.
>
> Doug Jones
>
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