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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
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Subject: Re: truth & ethics
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> = Ken Arndt

> My guy.  I was about to enter a humble apology for misusing your name when
> I read your question - ". . . why dows the 'search for truth [presuppose]
> ethics"?  Yiiks!!  Look up the definition of Ethics!

OK, I did: "1. the study of standards of conduct and moral judgement;
moral philosophy.  2. a treatise on this study  3. the system or code
of morals of a particular person, religion group, profession, etc."
[ Webster's New World Dictionary ]

I'm still not getting the 'search for truth presupposes ethics' part.
It seems that the search for truth can be quite unethical (eg,
medical experiments of Nazis).  Maybe I have the wrong dictionary.

(I didn't fall asleep in my liberal arts classes, I dropped out of
them!  In particular I didn't like the "Ethics" class because
my first question was "Why be ethical(moral)?" and the instructor
didn't want to answer that one (yet).  So I saw no point in going).

> Glad you like my humor.  For that alone I will apologize for goofin' up your
> name and getting your stand on the issues wrong.  i apologize  There!
> 
> It was hard but I did it.

These words should be bronzed.

> By the way, guy, Gordon is my middle name!  Really.  Kenneth Gordon Arndt!
> 
> Don't you just love it?  I do.  What does the A. stand for?

Arthur.
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