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Rationalism: a paper tiger?

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arachnophilia
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11-12-2007 3:04 AM 		Reply to: Message 6 by jar
11-11-2007 12:08 PM

Re: Yet more nonsense.
This is the face of postmodernism which lives in consummate contradiction-- moralizing absolutely about the falseness of a moral absolute, with an allegiance to nothing but its own self-congratulatory spirit.
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Yet more misrepresentation.
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We've been down this path many times Nem yet you seem to forget everything that has been explained to you.
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No one denies that there are absolutes.
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i've been to a few postmodern philosophy classes. they do deny absolutes. absolutely. and then talk about the contradiction.
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arachnophilia
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11-12-2007 11:58 AM 		Reply to: Message 27 by Chiroptera
11-12-2007 7:30 AM

Re: Yet more nonsense.
i've been to a few postmodern philosophy classes. they do deny absolutes. absolutely. and then talk about the contradiction.
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Huh. Is that so? You know what that sounds like to me? It sounds like no one (including the postmodernists themselves) know what they mean when they use the word "absolute". I've never seen anyone give a precise definition of what an "absolute" is -- and so how could anyone know whether or not there are absolutes? Or whether the statement, "There are no absolutes" is itself an absolute?
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that's pretty close to how they phrased it, actually.
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11-12-2007 11:59 AM 		Reply to: Message 28 by PaulK
11-12-2007 7:34 AM

Re: Yet more nonsense.
Postmodernists aren't "rationalists",
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yes, no, and sometimes.
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there's a lot of "wow, look at that!" and "i don't know!" in the camps, so i see how an ID advocate could also be a postmodernist pretty easily.
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