From: "Jon Rubin" <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: God help us, back to TMB
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:03:20 PST


>Why do you care more about the semantics of my description than the 
> facts of the experience???
> 
> because only a moron would think the two are separable.

"And only a moron, if there realy were a true moron, and I think there
probably never are any (I think that is a gift from truth, actually),
would think that calling someone a moron is a good idea. I mean, *this 
is
truly moronic*, though probably not *really* moronic. Can't you see that
attacking someone leads to "resentment"? Is "resentment" just a big 
catch
all for "all repelling of vicious attack", according to your version of
Neitzsche's rules for war or something? This is a really ugly, stupid
space."

Reread my phrase, its not too long -  I didn’t call anybody a moron 
(don’t tempt me), I just pointed out that you cannot separate what 
Unleash’s meaning (applying the principle of charity in territories that 
Davidson would fear to tread) from his experience and that anybody who 
thinks you can ... 
                               and it is just because this space becomes 
really stupid that attempting to pin people down is necessary (I offer 
the image of Unleash wriggling on a pin, gratis, to try and counter-act 
the pleasure he took in his becoming rice-pudding)
And no, attacking somebody does not lead to ressentiment (or do you mean 
plain old resentment?) 

"But in philosophy, and this is not "politics" simpliteur, I hope, it is 
a
provocation to thought. Or are you purely political? If so, let me 
assure
yoiu, that if you are purely political in this context, then *you are 
most
definitely not political*."

But while we’re on the subject of semantics, would you mind clarifying 
your first "sentence" as I think a few of your prepositions have gone 
astray. 
And despite the provocation, there seems to be little thought going on 
in this post if the best you can do is come back with unhelpful 
paradoxes.

Jon.

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