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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (18670)	7/19/2001 2:59:53 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

Self Evidence: "That makes it a perfectly reasonable basis for a personal philosophy." Yes, I agree. "That also makes it a pretty useless item in a policy discussion, or any discussion where you want to convince your interlocutors that your belief is worth considering." Not necessarily. If the interlocutors accept the notion of self evidence and agree that certain things can be based on self evidence, as in our constitution, then policy can not only be discussed but it can be based on these self evident concepts. Obviously the King of England at the time of the American Revolution rejected the validity of the self evident concepts present in our constitution while the constitutional defenders accepted them.