Posted by zeugma on March 30, 2006, at 22:55:52
In reply to Re: Public Expression of Religion Act , H.R. 2679, posted by special_k on March 30, 2006, at 20:42:57
Acceptable within the subculture (self interest)
Not so within the rest of society (don't go around hitting people)point is that society and sub society can both do fodorian science and that won't settle the issue.
the thought is here it could be that rational people disagree...
but are they being equally rational?
i dunno.
i want convergence...>>
the medievals called this casuistry, and eagerly engaged in it.
they had reasonably functional guidelines for settling these matters (Islamic, Jewish and Christian scholars agreed that aristotle had a handle on things and that an ontological postulate of a supreme being could be made, ie.e they probably did some counterfactuals involving God's nonexistence, or considered whether such counterfactuals were candidates for plausibility. This practice got a bad name later.)
I can't engage in this, because although I have beta content on hand of Tony Soprano (I live in New York and got a glimpse of him) I lack the bacjkground information on the Sopranos to practice casuistry (not using the word prejoratively).
-z
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