[lbo-talk] Obama's betrayal of hope

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Dec 3 10:19:52 PST 2009


SA wrote:
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> Carrol Cox wrote:
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> > When no fundamental assumptions are shared, debate is pointless.
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> In other words, you only want to talk to people who agree with you.
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Asshole. Do you identify "fundamental assumptions" with "complete bleif systems"? I have a hard time understandng why this simple point is so hard to grasp. It has been commnpace at least since Aristotle, and probably since Homer.

Carrol



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