Ethical foundations of the left

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Wed Jul 25 13:53:02 PDT 2001



> >>> jkschw at hotmail.com 07/25/01 03:35PM >>>


> Well, neither of you are persuaded, so this cuts my way, not yours.
I myself
> can recall vividly the two or three times in my life when my mind
was
> actually changed about something important by an argument.
>
> (((((
>
> CB: Perhaps it is that to change one's position immediately in
response to someone's argument against one is rare, but is less rare in a delayed reaction ,over more time, not having to eat crow in front of the person one has been arguing with, and ,as you point to, in conjunction with new experience which is seen in a different light because of the heated argument of the past ============== For those who want to delve further into the issues raised on the thread and get an appreciation of what, in technical parlance, is called defeasibility and deontic logic:

< http://www.ai.uga.edu/~dnute/ddl.html >

< http://www-csli.stanford.edu/hp/CVandNR.pdf >

< http://mally.stanford.edu/deontic.html >

< http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/dignum95communication.html >

< http://www.ditext.com/current/0007.html >

Ian



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