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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: philosophy
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 06:41:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 06:41:02 1985
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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>I must be a horrible person for trying to ensure that when two people use
>a term in a conversation, they are both talking about the same thing.
>Bad, bad Rich! 

    But your definition of `free' is so strange! I most certainly agree with
    you that nobody can be TOTALLY free of ALL INFLUENCE, except for perhaps
    the most anarchic mystics and wild residents of the bozone.

    No argument whatsover.

    But `relatively free' IS a meaningful term, unlike `relatively pregnant'.

    Freedom is NOT an on/off situation.

    Even physicists speak of `degrees of freedom'.

    SMASH CAUSALITY!!!

        Strikes at the source of daily confusion
	Eliminates ignorant fantasy
	Scrubbing your senses free of illusion
	Enjoy the taste of reality
		Reality Calypso
		Benjamin Bunny Faces Reality -- Randy Hann
-michael