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Subject:Re: Dissing the phrase "begging the question" From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:43:57 -0700
At 01:28 PM 6/12/97 -0500, Stephen P. Victor wrote:
>> Not to veer overmuch into philosophy, but: to lose the "name" of a
>> thing is to lose the thing itself.
>
>I wonder if we could veer into some sound reasoning. Could someone
>explain to me how losing the "name" of a thing is to lose the thing
>itself? Does calling a table an airplane make it no longer a table?
>
Steve seems to be emulating Dr. Johnson kicking the rock and saying, "Thus I
refute Berkeley."
"The very ding an sich itself," eh, Steve, if I may quote Wallace Stevens.
--Wayne Douglass
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