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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: mixing and holding values
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 09:10:23 EDT
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May i interject something here?

Tom Craver, can I attempt to paraphrase your beliefs? Feel free to
make ammends if I have distorted them and left out important parts.

1. Humans, by definition, have the ability to be t-rational.

2. It is much better to be t-rational than not to be.

3. All apparant conflicts in life as one tries to be t-rational are
   a result of:

	a) Not understanding t-rationality properly.

	b) Dealing with jerks who do not understand or refuse to accept
	   t-rationality.

	c) Not having all the relavant information (is being unaware of
	   this lack necessary? I have been unable to acertain this
		from your articles -- Laura)

	d) calamities and natural disaster which are not very likely to
	   happen (and could be prevented by a rational person that 
 		was prepared? Again I am not sure -- Laura)

4. therefore, the 'ideal human' should always be striving to be more
   and more t-rational, where the ideal state is an entirely t-rational
	being.

is this it? BIG QUESTION TIME: How do you know that t-rationality
is a constant between all individuals? In other words, how do
you know that what is t-rational for Tom Craver is also t-rational
for Alan Wexelblatt, Paul Torek and Laura Creighton?? Sounds to me
as if you will have a real problem if we all attain 'ideal t-rationality'
and find that it is not the same t-rationality! We will all be perfectly
correct and entirely in disagreement!

If "by definition" you claim that t-rationality is constant between
all individuals ( a reasonable way out) then I need to know what
grounds you have for assuming this. I should think that t-rationality
is related to intelligence, myself, something which I have observed
NOT to be constant between all individuals.

laura creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura