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In article <DsHq1t.CIu@eskimo.com>
nsmith@eskimo.com (Noel Smith) writes:

> Chomsky spends a fair amount of his time speaking to lay-people. He
> reports that they typically grasp his arguments more quickly than
> intellectuals, 

OK, that he may have observed.  That one can't argue with.  His guess
as to why this is follows:


because they have formed fewer dogmatic beliefs.

Mine is:

because they share Chomsky's dogmatic beliefs.



David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
