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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (3582)	1/8/2003 2:56:56 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Do you think that the Earth was the center of the universe when people held that opinion? Not in the sense we mean center of the universe today. But of course, we could be wrong now, too. I am perfectly happy to say that some opinions are reasonable within a context of limited information and/or analysis, and will be doomed to revision ultimately. That does not mean that when they are regarded as no longer tenable, it is a mere change of fashion. We agree on the first sentence. As to the second, no, it doesn't necessarily mean that, but it can. The end of dueling, the transformation of dueling to an act of the highest honor to a crime, was really a mere change of fashion. It was in its day a fairly competent method for people who aspired to membership in a certain class of society to settle differences without resort to the endless litigation that has become its substitute today. (It also suffered from changes in hardware, which made it much deadlier and therefore riskier.) I never even suggested that inner conviction had any probative value. Okay. I may have misread you.