Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!williams From: williams@sunybcs.UUCP (Carl Williams) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion Subject: Re: a cross-posting request Message-ID: <2079@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:52:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2079 Posted: Thu Aug 15 00:52:11 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:12:54 EDT References: <244@frog.UUCP> <1047@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: williams@gort.UUCP (Carl williams) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 10 Keywords: epistemology, presuppositions Xref: linus net.philosophy:2047 net.religion:6990 It is intellectually myopic to assert that a rationalist philosphy does not have faith (i.e., a belief system) at its base. As the 19th-century Presbyterian theologian R. L. Dabney so succinctly put it: "The pretended warfare between reason and faith is waged by all those who wish to make a pretext for believing unreasonably and wickedly." Let all philosophers own up to their beliefs or else admit that knowledge (and philosophy) is impossible.