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From: williams@sunybcs.UUCP (Carl Williams)
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Subject: Re: a cross-posting request
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:52:11 EDT
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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.