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To: TimF who wrote (69108)	12/2/2002 7:55:24 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Everything is different from everything else. What is "very different"? That's a subjective judgment. The original point was that difference is not objective- and what is an "important" difference to one person, might not be so to someone else, and vice versa. I'd say your post helps prove that.

To: TimF who wrote (69108)	12/2/2002 8:27:04 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

that doesn't change the actual fact that some things are very different then others. Everything is very different from everything else. Even one atom is very different from every other atom. One pixel on a computer screen is very different from every other pixel on a computer screen. The term at issue, let's not forget, was "important" differences. Are these differences important or not? And is every distinction always either important or not important, or is a distinction sometimes important and sometimes not important? That is the starting point and still unresolved issue of this discussion. Let's not lose sight of it until we have agreement or have reached a place where we accept that agreement is impossible. In either case, we should move on. Until we have reached either place, we should keep the discussion focussed.