Re: MD Weasel words

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Feb 08 2004 - 23:48:01 GMT

  • Next message: David Buchanan: "RE: MD Weasel words"

    >
    > dmb says:
    > Rorty is not rejecting it, he only thinks there's no reason to think it
    will
    > ever work? That's an emtpy egg shell if ever there was one. The difference
    > between rejecting something and not accepting something is like the
    > difference between dropping it and letting it go. There is no real
    > difference.

    Ian says ...

    Sorry but there is a difference,
    atheism vs agnostic,
    actively dropping vs not putting any effort into catching,
    unlike the weasel / eggshell metaphor, your metaphor is driven by Newtonian
    gravitation, etc ...

    Anyway, you preparedness to weasel the semantics out of the distinction kind
    of proves Rorty's point.
    Why cling to the vain hope that words have some fundamental semantic
    distinctions,
    when you yourself illustrate how easy it is to weasel them out.

    Ian Glendinning

    MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
    Mail Archives:
    Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
    Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
    MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net

    To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
    http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Feb 08 2004 - 23:49:06 GMT