On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:50:23 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> ... doesn't hold up unless you have already accepted the premise of
psychoanalysis.
Sure, the premise being, "stuff exists." I would have thought that this is the limit beyond which one cannot think, the failure to grasp this resulting in a psychotic breakdown.
> It's an attempt at substituting an assertion for an
explanation...
Explanation is always retroactive, it presupposes assertion, and as retroactive, it is tautologically self-justifying.
ken