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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
> 
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