"Rationality"; "Rational" Part 1 was Re: [lbo-talk] SPIEGEL on Dresden

tfast at yorku.ca tfast at yorku.ca
Thu Feb 17 15:47:12 PST 2005


Quoting Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>:
> And frankly, I think it nonsense to interpret a strong or flat argument
> as claiming the status of a god. That's cheap rhetoric. In fact it's
> bullshit. You can always argue against a position someone takes,
> regardless of how strongly they assert it. A god has power to implement
> his/her diktat.
>
Ok agreed. I should have said superhuman or mystically endowed with the-singular-god like power of perfect forsight of consequence and perfect hindsight of cause.

Travis



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