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From: blew@fozzie.cc.wwu.edu (Barbara Washburn)
Subject: Re: Reality...???
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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 23:19:37 GMT
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In article <3b5mga$d56@kiwi.gen.nz> stephen@kiwi.gen.nz (Stephen Taylor) writes:
>: > >On 19 Nov 1994, Richard Roose wrote:
> 
>: > >> Would any one like to take a crack at defining "reality"?
>
>In Hegel all possible logical concepts are deduced in terms of a single
>organon of knowledge (see his "Logic"). Unfortunately the work, written
>150 years before the term "user friendly" was invented, is difficult to
>access. Concerning reality he wrote:
>
>        The Real is the Rational, and the Rational is the Real.

Hmm. Sanity is staying afloat in a sea of information, misinformation, 
and disinformation. Reality must be seen as that combination of in-, misin-, 
and disin-formation that allows one to stand on board once again 
because of prudent conclusions and decisions one derives from experience, 
observations, vicarious suppositions, and wisdom. Just how long this 
paradigm lasts is a matter of balancing this with that while hoping 
shipmates and nature finds it ameniable. Otherwise, back in the drink you go!
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         David M. Washburn, blew@henson.cc.wwu.edu
             The Global Village Meeting House
Perhaps only God can love smart asses! Philosophers don't think
God exists; Theologians wonder whether true philosphers exist!
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