From: Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 16 1998 - 00:51:14 MST
> I'll not bother to refute your allegations since (a) they are
ridiculous and
> (b) in the last several posts you've proven incredibly resistant to
logic.
In other words, I don't agree with you (logic was one of my strong
suits, both in my GRE exam (cumulative score 2190) and my
Philosophy program (cum laude). Ad hominum attacks were
irrevocably proven fallacious by the Greeks over 2500 years ago.
Do you ever leave that asphalt tape on which you roll out your
subsistence and actually walk in, or camp in, real woods? I have -
on many different occasions, in many different places across this
land, for many years (it's my idea of vacationing and recharging my
batteries to return renewed to the relative savageries of so-called
"civilization") and I know what I have seen. Experiential knowledge
is known in logic as apodictic (this means self-evident to you lay
people), and is irrefutable by abstract reasoning, since it is the
ground or foundation from which the premises to be logically
processed (induction or deduction, Aristotelian or symbolic) into
conclusions by such reasoning must primordially be drawn. Joe
> Lets just say that I travel in excess of one hundred thousand miles
per
> year..(land miles...not air) .and have been in several countries on
several
> continents. What you allude to is neither evident. nor obvious.
The term
> "pave the planet" is ludicrious when traveling across many of the
western
> states or provinces on a "skinny road" , frequently stopping to
allow deer,
> elk and cattle the right of way...and the last auto encountered was
hours
> ago.
>
> EvMick
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