Re: Logic makes a comeback: morality and materialism

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Fri, 30 May 1997 16:46:08 -0600

At 12:09 PM 5/30/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Russell Stewart writes:
>
>JB>Again, I appreciate your effort.
>
>RS<I don't think that you do. You are still batting furiously against a straw-
>man, pointing out all of the subjective portions of my moral standard while
>continuing to ignore the subjective portions of your own.>>
>
>It's getting so you can't even compliment a guy around here. ;-)
>
>Yes, I really did appreciate your effort to lay out a case, without personal
>invective laced throughout. It was refreshing, and a good attempt.

I'm glad you appreciated it.

>But I think I've gone as far as I can on this. Peter Grice summed up it up
>nicely by writing: "Jim is mainly discussing the internal consistency of a
>view whilst you are mainly addressing the validity of a view."

Unfortunatley, you're discussing the wrong view. You should be looking at
the internal consistency of your own.

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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.