From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2004 - 20:35:06 BST
Dear Mark M,
>True Intellectual enquiry pursues a factual,
> verifiable accounting, and not opinion, speculation or interpretation. I
> feel Noam Chomsky's work, which i recommend to you, 'Deterring democracy'
> achieves this with flying colours.
You realize I'm sure that everyone, including me, you, Chomsky, Limbaugh
and the most self-described "objective" scientist cannot possible know or
learn all the facts about anything, that of necessity facts are always
selected by both cultural and presumptive filters. Being familiar with
philosophy, you also realize that there's great debate about what
consitutes "facts," i.e., truth.
With that in mind I do recommend Limbaugh's "See I Told You So," but to
get the full context of his thinking you might want to read his earlier
work, "The Way Things Ought to Be."
> I wish to make myself aware of leading edge intellectual enquiry, to that
> extent of which my own ability allows.
If you really want to go deep into intellectual enquiry, I recommend any
one of Ayn Rand's books, especially her seminal work, "Atlas Shrugged."
Best regards,
Platt
> All the best,
> Mark
>
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