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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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In article <D01qAM.FHy@armory.com>,
Richard Steven Walz <rstevew@armory.com> wrote:
>Okey-dokey, but we all must do "guesswork" in order to live, and it seemed
>to me that you weren't being very forthcoming about your entire view. Thus
>I concocted a few possible sequelae that I believe do follow from a belief
>in "free-will" in the classic western christian sense and placed them so as
>to find out what you might do about them and in response to them. Instead
>of addressing them, you simply took offense at them. They were
>hypotheticals based on what I believe a person who would firmly adhere to
>"free-will" would ALSO be necessarily compelled by that premise, to
>believe.
>-Steve

"I can't imagine how anyone other than a stupid conservative republican could
hold the views on free will that Neil Rickert does (despite the fact that I
don't at all understand those views), so I'll just call him a stupid
conservative republican and see how he responds; if he isn't forthcoming with
a statement of his true and complete political beliefs, then I'll call him
a coward."

If Jeff Dalton thinks I'm the most arrogant person on the net, he sure hasn't
been reading *this* guy.
-- 
<J Q B>
