Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:47:05 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> Subject: Re: BHA: Context Jan Straathof wrote: > > hi Marsh, you wrote: > > >Once again, we also run into the common problem with those being irrealist > >in thought necessarily being realist in deed. Even anti-essentialists act as > >if their is an essential difference between chocolate cream pies and rat > >poison. There was a faith healer of deal Who said although pain isn't real When I sit on a pin And it punctures my skin I dislike what I fancy I feel. There is a fine chapter in Kenneth Burke's _Grammar of Motives_ dealing with what he called the paradoxes of substance, and if I recall correctly he too gives some attention to the way in which the adverb "essentially" is always creeping in. Carrol > > The other day i came across this nice anecdote from the orient. > It's a story about a loyal 'mayavadin' (one who supports the view > that the world is unreal) who is in Kashi, a place famous for bulls. > > The mayavadin began to flee at the sight of the approaching bull. > A logician happened to be standing nearby. He addressed the > mayavadin saying: "Well sir, if you say that the world is unreal, > then the bull is also unreal. Then why do you run in fear ?" The > mayavadin would not accept his defeat in logic and repelled: > "But my running away is also unreal !" > > yours, > Jan > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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