Re: MD Proposal to discuss a Metaphysics of Value/Horsepucky???

From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 18:08:06 BST

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    Hello everyone

    >From: "Mark Steven Heyman" <markheyman@infoproconsulting.com>
    >Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    >To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    >Subject: Re: MD Proposal to discuss a Metaphysics of Value/Horsepucky???
    >Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:52:39 -0700
    >
    >On 13 Aug 2004 at 15:25, Dan Glover wrote:
    >ham:
    > >Greetings, Arlo, and thanks for the caviat. Do you really feel that
    > >Dan and Mark "disagree with my thesis as a whole"?
    >
    >dan:
    >I cannot speak for Mark of course but I'll try and give you my take.
    >
    >msh:
    >I just posted my evaluation of his thesis.
    >
    >I find Ham's thesis to be very well constructed and the writing to be
    >excellent. What bothers me about the it however is the content. I
    >cannot help but wonder why someone with the talent shown is wasting
    >time dealing with what I see as social level political issues of the
    >day and calling it philosophy. In a hundred years, who's going to
    >care? That same notion bothers me to a degree with Noam Chomsky's
    >work so you're in good company anyway.
    >
    >msh says:
    >Dan, Dan, Dan. The work of two people couldn't be further apart. How
    >many of your 6,000 books were written by NC? I won't turn this into
    >a defense of Chomsky thread, except to say that we can add together
    >all the contributions of all the people who have ever posted to the
    >MOQ forums, (or who will ever post to them in the future) and still
    >not approach NC's contributions to our understanding of human
    >cognition, human dignity, and human freedom.

    Hi Mark

    I tend to agree with you but I did add the caveat "to a degree." I have 4
    Chomsky books: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies;
    On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and
    Reflections on Language; Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky; New
    Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind.

    Do you have any more recommendations?

    >
    >BTW, thanks for the links to Popper and Falsification. I enjoyed
    >them very much, and will comment further.

    You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed.

    Dan

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