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From: turpin@ut-sally.UUCP (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Def'n of individualism
Summary: Leapin' logics!
Message-ID: <11046@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 17:26:04 GMT
References: <3386@dasys1.UUCP> <2146@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <2523@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1281@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1281@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, tsf@THEORY.CS.CMU.EDU (Timothy Freeman) writes:
> ... if you make decisions
> taking into account things other than peer pressure, then one
> naturally assumes that others may make decisions independently of
> their peers, so treating them as individuals is obviously necessary.

Necessary for what purpose? While this was a small part of your
posting, you are making precisely the kind of logical leap here
that leads others to natural rights theories. I find this
slightly ironic, since you write one paragraph later:

> ... I'm asserting here that the term "natural rights" does not name any
> abstraction you can form from observed reality (hints of general
> semantics here...).

Russell
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