From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-mail.com>
Subject: BHA: Re: Hutton Report - Tissue of lies?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:00:45 -0500


> The entire episode and the superficial manner of holding opinions
conclusively proves, what I have always maintained, people barely know WHY
they hold a particular view. Reading Bourdieu's 'habitus' might be useful
for you. The cognitive structures are opaque, and there is only appearance
of reasoning.

How does the fact that (originally) Tim didn't set forth the reasons for his
opinions imply that he doesn't *have* such reasons?  This is like saying
that because you don't know why or how a television works, therefore there
is no mechanism causing to work.  Not terribly scientific.

T.

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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce




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