dr_who@umcp-cs.UUCP (07/06/83)
I am a newcomer to this net, and have not read the article Wayne is
responding to in the quotation below. At the risk of contracting
foot-in-mouth disease, then, let me reply to this from Wayne:
Phyllis does not answer the question of whether there can be such an
absolute value system. It is a lot easier to say that the reason
that we cannot define something is that we are not clever enough
than to say that the reason is that it does not exist. It is just a
convenient way of passing the buck of explaining the world to some
other, more wise "Philosophers".
It seems to me that the ease of explaining something in various ways is
irrelevant to the question of which explanation is correct. Besides, can we
"define" (I am obviously not clear on what "define" means in this context)
the Relativity Of Values any more easily than an (the) Absolute Value
System? If not, is it because we are not clever enough, or because it does
not exist?
-- Paul Torek, U of MD, College Park
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