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To: general_re
So, you're probably saying to yourself, what's the big picture? Well, Mill, in his argument, rejects the use of appeals to abstract objective truth in making his case. He's not going to do so, and if you care to read on a bit further on your own, you can discover for yourself why that is - I trust I've given you a taste of a method that you can use all by yourself when reading things, and if you do it when nobody's looking, nobody will see you moving your lips when you read...
476 -gre-


"It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility." - J.S. Mill


So Mills is saying that he argued that an abstract right is not a thing of independent utility, and that he forgoes any advantage derived from the idea.

How does this relate in any way with Mills 'explicitly rejecting appeals to objective truth'?

Obviously, if is means 'is', it has no relationship. It is just more general_re word-play'.


Now, -- you again repeat your theory:

"Mill, in his argument, rejects the use of appeals to abstract objective truth in making his case."

--- Whereas Mills made no mention that he considers 'abstract rights' to be your "objective truth"

Your 'explain' in vacuous generalizations by saying:

"What does he mean? Well, by "abstract right", Mill is talking about some variety of non-concrete proposition, such as those generally labeled "rights", which are generally considered to be true in all places and at all times regardless of the observer - making them universally and objectively true."

---- Babbling word-gaming, 'general'. You're trying to baffle me with great volumes of "some variety' of BS.

480 posted on 05/02/2003 5:25:57 PM PDT by tpaine (Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weak.)
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To: tpaine
You're trying to baffle me with great volumes of "some variety' of BS.

Yep. Just keep saying that to yourself as you bury your head in the sand and pretend that everything's just fine with objectivism - move along, nothing to see here, folks....

483 posted on 05/02/2003 5:55:13 PM PDT by general_re (Personifiers unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity!)
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To: tpaine; general_re
Whereas Mills made no mention that he considers 'abstract rights' to be your "objective truth"

tp, it strikes me that maybe "objectivism" isn't as much a core philosophy of yours, as is something that may be called, "most finite imaginablism."

498 posted on 05/03/2003 12:20:08 PM PDT by unspun (It's not about you.)
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