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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 15:25:02 GMT
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In article <jqbD02qst.IIn@netcom.com>, Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com> wrote:
>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>
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Well, he never DID tell what he thought on the subject, but at least you
make it all sound humorous. And yes, I DO have enough attitude to kill a
horse! Too bad I don't have a horse! I like horsemeat! ;)
-Steve Walz  rstevew@armory.com

