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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
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Subject: Re: Free will - some new reading..
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 18:27:45 EDT
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In article <> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>> 
>> 		Daniel Dennett, ELBOW ROOM
>> 				forms of free will worth wanting
>> 		Basic Books
>
>The title alone says it all.  I hope you all get to read MY new book,
>"You Don't Know Your Ass From Your Unicorn:  The Varieties of Unicorns
> Worth Wanting".  I go into detail to show how just because the word
>'unicorn' doesn't refer to any real object, that doesn't mean we can't
>redefine the word to mean something else, and magically get unicorns to 
>exist.

Could any response be more revealing than this?  Instead of reading
at least the first and last chapters of Dennett's book, which address
precisely the objections that Rich is making and go a hundred miles
beyond him, Rich decides he knows all he needs to know from the
book's title.  I'm not sure at this point why anyone continues this
"debate" with Rosen.

Do you remember in your undergraduate philosophy courses, how there
was always one guy who monopolized the discussions with his
ill-founded objections to everything the professor and the readings
said?  "Aristotle must have been a dope, because obviously blah blah
blah...."  

R. Carnes