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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <4268@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 88 01:54:30 GMT
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In article <369@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
>I'm going to be hard-pressed to find a quality comeback to this one!
>
>Actually, what I would say is:
>
>"Perhaps if we pooled our experiences and ironed out our differences, and if
>we applied the rules of logic and other rules by which we all organize our
>respective worlds, we could come to an agreement about what the nature of an
>elephant is."
>
>And we all got on the elephant that we had agreed on and rode off into the
>sunset.

I don't think so.  That ``ironing out the differences'' stuff is
going to be difficult.  Methink that the elephant will die of old age.
Will that be an objectively dead elephant?  or only a subjectively
dead one?

Laura
-- 
The universe is expanding, but I still can't find a parking space.

Laura Creighton	
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