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Ian Glendinning ian.glendinning at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 17:40:21 PDT 2008


Nice try DMB ...

Switching the rhetoric to "darling Ian" doen't change the attack.

You quoted me (explicitly) and said "that just kills me. Only a
philosophical tyrant could make as assertion like that" responding
directly to my quote, not Godels' or anyone else's - there is no
ambiguity. If that was accidental, fine, just apologize for your
error.

Horse I think you should be filtering DMB's mails so that you protect
him from such future errors. Email kills.

Ian

On 8/22/08, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dearest darling Ian:
>
> Take another look. The tyrant is the guy who says there is a logically complete and consistent moral system. I have no idea who ever said such a thing. I'm attacking that assertion, not you or Godel or anybody that disputes it. You, on the other hand, have answered a fictional personal attack with an actual one. If I were to engage in a personal attack on you at this point, I'd say you're not a very careful reader. Also, you don't live up to your own standards with respect to personal attacks....
>
> Ian had said:
> > Hi DMB, you make the same tyrannical point yourself ...
> >
> > "Logic itself is not logically complete and consistent, let alone any
> > moral philosophy." As you say.
> >
> > In fact, I made a much weaker assertion of "not irrelevant", no more.
> > BTW quit with the personal attacks.
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On 8/22/08, david buchanan  wrote:
> >>
> >> Ian said:
> >> ...Godel is not irrelevant to explaining why moral philosophies can never be (logically) complete and consistent.
> >>
> >> dmb says:
> >> Man, that just kills me. Only a philosophical tyrant could make as assertion like that. You'd have to be a hyper-rationalist and even more insane than Hegel. Logic itself is not logically complete and consistent, let alone any moral philosophy.
> >>
> >> Exploring the possibilities and limits of intellect is one of the central points of the MOQ, no? And doesn't that exploration make these kinds of assertions seem thoroughly implausible? Even ridiculous? I think so.
>
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