On 6/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jef Allbright</b> <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So where in this thread do you think such was ever asserted or<br>implied? Saying that categories have no ontological status in no way<br>implies validity of categorical relativism. And on this list I would<br>be among the least suspected of promoting such a view, given how much
<br>I go on about the importance of the process of increasing awareness<br>leading to an increasingly coherent model of perceived reality.</blockquote><div><br>I didn't say you promoted any such view. Jef, I have been criticized far more often for being too blunt about speaking my mind than the reverse; if I meant to criticize you for holding a particular view, I would do it directly rather than by allegory of a third party. The reason I wrote that post was because "man anticipates continued life as a sunflower" looked like a pure straw man, until I realized it wasn't: there are people who do commit that fallacy, and not just inmates of lunatic asylums either; so I demonstrated this by citing it coming from a highly respected author.
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