----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
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> And this is why this Hegelian Spiel is unsatisfying to me:
> there's no clear means of verification or contradiction! Talking
> to somebody wild about Hegel is precisely like talking to a
> fundamentalist Christian: everything fits perfectly into their
> world view, every mistake other people make illustrates that
> Hegel/fundamentalism is correct, every event clearly verifies the
> superiority of the System to those in the Know.
>
> I don't mean to single out Hegel here, much philosophy is like this.
> Give me late Wittgenstein any day!
>
> Miles
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Woohoo and Michael Lynch too...........:-)
Ian