RE: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:17:55 -0000
> From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> >It is the complexity, the
> >coherence and the mutual support of the millions of bits that
> provides
> >a justificiation.
>
> 'Every fact is backed up by the whole universe.' -Washburn
>
> This is the soul thrust of my anti-shaman thread. It is also the soul
> reason I avoid the words (and the concepts...) of 'belief' and
> 'faith'.
> Why slip when I can grip?
>
You just did a Freudian slip, friend. And it's precisely
that sort of phenomenon -- psychological reality --
that requires more subtle and complex concepts than
those of objectivism.[1]
("Soul". And my point doesn't actually depend on
this case being genuinely Freudian, or even that
there is such a thing, just that there are some
psychological realities.)
Robin
[1] Pretending that you can say that what's "out
> there" is real and what's "in here" isn't, when in fact
> you can't ultimately separate one from the other.
>
>