Re: MD Ironic Metaphysics

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 12:00:57 GMT

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    Hi Matt:

    Thanks for explaining what you mean by "begging the question." As I
    understand it, it means the same as Ayn Rand's "Check your premises."
    Let's see if I can apply it properly. For example, you write:

    >To say that our attempt to cope with the world is a metaphysical stance
    > begs the question because as far as we can tell, we are not debating about
    > how the world _really_ is, we are just trying to deal with it.
     
    This statement begs the question of "How you can deal with the world
    when you don't know what it really is?"

    Is this what you mean by begging the question?

    Platt

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