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To: Ilaine who wrote (40627)6/16/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Well, I went to my Webster, and I agree that the external authority element is not in the words themselves. In any case, my focus in the previous post wasn't on the question of whether atheists can be moral. Or on the meaning of moral and/or ethical, fwiw. Instead, I was focusing on Chris' invocation of an external authority - something I believe he expressly did. If that exits the boundaries of the semantic discussion, I would like to open a new subtopic under the "external authority" banner.



To: Ilaine who wrote (40627)6/16/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
The dictionary definitions are irrelevant to me- "external authority" is not even in my dictionary. I addressed my question to the person to whom it was intended. I was interested in his response, which will, no doubt, be quite different from the universe of other possible responses.


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