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To: Ichneumon
What is my definiton of life? Anything that has 3 or more monads.

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

It was fun watching you guys scramble to find out what a monad was. Since you had to scramble to look it up -- and some got it wrong-- it is a fair assumption that you haven't had a college-level exposure to philosophy. If you haven't had any college philosophy, it is a fair assumption that you haven't attended college.

159 posted on 03/07/2003 5:49:14 AM PST by Dataman
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To: Dataman
If you haven't had any college philosophy, it is a fair assumption that you haven't attended college.

I guess I must have dreamt it.

163 posted on 03/07/2003 6:57:50 AM PST by Youngblood
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To: Dataman; Youngblood
DM: Since you had to scramble to look it up -- and some got it wrong-- it is a fair assumption that you haven't had a college-level exposure to philosophy. If you haven't had any college philosophy, it is a fair assumption that you haven't attended college.

I guess we're all "outed." But I, too, seem to recall finishing college, in 1971. Indeed, I had a single class in philosophy, probably in the junior or sophomore years, 68-69, in the range of 35 years ago. It would be interesting to check whether the word "monad" ever came up therein. Alas! There's no way to do so. There is no record sufficiently detailed anywhere, especially not in my head.

Rather reminds me of the admitted limitations of the fossil record. Some humanly useful information exists for a time but is simply destroyed. (That in turn reminds me of a discussion on another thread about whether humanly meaningful information can arise without intelligent intervention. I don't see why not.)

Anyway, the syllogism presented by the quote would seem to be--like most creationist argument--deliberately fallacious.

166 posted on 03/07/2003 7:29:50 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: Dataman
Actually, I took a lot of philosophy in college -- it was a great way to meet girls. However, it's been 17 years, and useless information has a tendency to go by the boards.

BTW, you've just confirmed my suspicion that you're a smarmy little school kid who gets great delight in thinking he's getting the better of his elders.

168 posted on 03/07/2003 7:36:26 AM PST by Junior (Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
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