To: general_re
Even if you think you can inductively reason your way into axioms, you're just pushing the assumption back a step by assuming that the inductive principle is itself true, when it is definitely unproven, and probably unprovable. No problem. Just call the assumptions self-evident.
297 posted on
05/01/2003 6:58:03 PM PDT by
Roscoe
To: Roscoe
"call the assumptions self-evident."
-roscoe-
Backed by our constitutional experience, they have been proven self evident.
300 posted on
05/01/2003 7:11:38 PM PDT by
tpaine
(Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weak.)
To: Roscoe
Just call the assumptions self-evident. One would think that a completely objective philosophy shouldn't need that sort of crutch, but there you go. Even Thomas Jefferson didn't claim that "these truths are self-evident", merely that "we hold these truths to be self-evident". And TJ was no dummy - presumably, if he could have proven them, he would have...
301 posted on
05/01/2003 7:14:24 PM PDT by
general_re
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