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To: Solon who wrote (602)5/14/2001 2:45:52 PM
From: Solon  Respond to of 1112
 
Mitch: As a follow-up to the last post, I might also add this critique, which is less charitable than that given by Chiprout, but which reaches the same conclusions:

philosophy.wisc.edu



To: Solon who wrote (602)5/15/2001 12:07:54 AM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1112
 
Thanks for the links. Good reading...

It reminds me of how much the human concept of "explanation" is tied up into counterfactuals and interference in the causal chain, which is in turn based on analogies of bodily experience and action. These anthrocentric concepts probably don't apply well to things like "the universe" (or "God", if you will).


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