Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site yetti.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!yetti!oz From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Free will - some new reading.. Message-ID: <222@yetti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 10:27:51 EDT Article-I.D.: yetti.222 Posted: Thu Aug 8 10:27:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 15:21:47 EDT References: <217@yetti.UUCP> <1420@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) Organization: York University Computer Science Lines: 39 Keywords: free will Summary: In article <1420@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: >> Daniel Dennett, ELBOW ROOM >> forms of free will worth wanting >> >> Basic Books > >The title alone says it all. I hope you all get to read MY new book, >"You Don't Know Your Ass From Your Unicorn: The Varieties of Unicorns > Worth Wanting". I go into detail to show how just because the word >'unicorn' doesn't refer to any real object, that doesn't mean we can't >redefine the word to mean something else, and magically get unicorns to exist. > I was under the delusion that "critical thinking" involved the perception and analysis of contradictory arguments, and theories before reaching conclusions. Mr. Rosen awakened me !! Critical Thinking must obviously mean sticking as tighly as possible onto one's biases, prejudices, misconceptions, ignorance etc. Mr. Rosen is so locked into "his" way of seeing things, he is unable to look around, even for intellectial stimulation. Sigh !! This is just as dangerous as any other form of mental close-off you care to name.. (Racism ?? Religious fanaticism ?? .... fill in the blanks ....) The above recommended book could be too much for Rich to handle. For starters, he should read "The history of Philosophy" by Will Durant. Perhaps some reading activity could stifle his extraordinary outpour of verbosity, static, and rhetoric. [I could even save some disk space along the way :-)] Oz -- __ O Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz / /\___ Bitnet: oz@[yuleo|yuyetti] . ------------------------- / \ Support GNU. Consider the 3-musketeers' motto: / --+ ONE FOR ALL - ALL FOR ONE /