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To: Carry_Okie
I'll keep my "dishonest" objectivity, thanks. When I was in college, I read about a "philosopher" who convinced himself (and apparently, a lot of others) that all things existed because we believed they did. This "new honesty" sounds as looney as his idea to me.....
14 posted on 03/07/2002 8:39:01 AM PST by Texan5
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To: Texan5
That was Sophocles. His followers were called Sophists, from whom we get the term "sophisticated."

Rudlof Carnap proved mathematically that the sophists' question could not be answered, and was therefore a pseudo-problem in philosophy.

16 posted on 03/07/2002 9:25:31 AM PST by Carry_Okie
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