virus: False Paradigms

D. H. Rosdeitcher (76473.3041@compuserve.com)
03 Apr 97 17:23:40 EST


David McF. wrote:
>This mailing list is not less mystical. It never was mystical. The only thing
>that
>has changed is that you are attacking the CoV less frequently. I assumed that
>you had grown weary of beating up those strawmen.

There appears to be at CoV a silly agnosticism that is quite prevalent.
Stuff like "Level 3","all truths are half-truths", "I don't know if there's a
god",etc. get treated as objective, as if there is no difference between
arbitrary assertions and legitimately supported assertions. Such a distinction
could answer Tony's question about the irrefutability of statements like:

> "I FEAR I NEED TO EAT THE QUEENS PUSSY, MEMETICS CAN EMPOWER US"

Pancritical rationalism and objectivism, paradigms in which truth is not
absolute, get mixed up with false paradigms which claim that reality is not
absolute.
-David