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>From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
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Subject: Re: jibing, dedekind cuts, and "noumenalia"
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>From article <oz.697398025@ursa.sis.yorku.ca>, by oz@sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit):
> silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:
> 
> I am told that this "Noumenal perception of the universals" is also
> related to an ancient, multiheaded dragon called Essentialism. Last
> news is, having suffered a bitter defeat and a couple of lost heads
> in the hands of Wittgenstein, the dragon appearently is still alive
> and well, and is seen lurking around comp.ai.philosophy... :-)


Your report is a bit revisionist.  Kant cut off that head over 100
years earlier.  ;-)

But it is amazing how new ones keep appearing in the most unlikely places.


hiho

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