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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: David Longley, The Baby, and the Bathwater
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In article <805276805snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley  <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>It is simply a fact that when it comes to anything that  matters, 
>we  turn to those amongst us who have 'scientific' expertise.  We 
>only rely on common sense when we have no alternative. Just about 
>everything  in modern life depends on our learning and  following 
>explicit, formal, truth-functional rules (pre-flight  checklists, 
>stock inventories, attendance registers, homework marking schemes 
>etc. etc.) in order to make reliable sense of the world. 

I would say that you have a very warped sense of "what matters".
In fact, "mattering" is intensional in all its glory.


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