From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 21:23:53 BST
DMB, Matt, Ian:
> Matt said:
> When you take the contingent turn, you no longer worry about transcendental
> arguments or knowledge or facts. They are simply incoherent, it being
> impossible to escape from history to something eternal.
>
> dmb says:
> I guess it would be too much to expect an actual answer, but I'll ask again
> anyway. Who in the world asserts that knowledge and facts rest upon
> transcendental and eternal truth? Who says that? I honestly wonder who and
> what in the world you are talking about. Please, give me just ONE example
> of just ONE such assertion. (Preachers and pundits don't count.)
Matt gave an example by declaring " . . . it being impossible to escape
from history to something eternal." That's an assertion of a
transcendental and eternal truth if I ever heard one, preachers, pundits
and politicians included. :-)
Platt
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