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To: kosta50
is this another reductio ad absurdum

No but it is, as alluded some time back, similar to the problem of infinite regress of dependent causes. It's the problem of infinite regress of be-causes. Without inherent value (no because needed), some axiom, self-evident truth, assumed to be true, etc., you have an infinite logical regress.

It's the limit of logic's conditionality.

Not that you have to reach it, but if you claim your values are all *purely* logic based...

1,463 posted on 02/16/2011 11:19:30 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr; James C. Bennett
Without inherent value (no because needed)...

So, what's an inherent value of a Paramecium?

1,465 posted on 02/17/2011 2:22:14 AM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit....give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- pagan prayer)
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