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To: epicure who wrote (5553)	1/4/1998 10:37:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Ahh, Evenhanded Alexa, I didn't mean to tarnish your Halo of Tolerance (Tolerance, as Alan Bloom noted in his The Closing of the American Mind, is the one thing that modern Americans do believe to be an Absolute). I wasn't trying to argue with you, I was responding to Penni, who wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Yes, I had noticed when you shifted the basis of your argument away from "cause", which is why I compared you to the glorious weasel. I was declaring victory. Of course I have no idea what you actually believe because you usually post quotes, frequently from encyclopedic texts. A factoid is not an idea. Let me see if I can find a credo I like that isn't a quote from an encyclopedia; how about: sola fidei sola gratia sola scriptura Alas, these, too, may seem to be factoids, even though they are the solas of the Reformation. Then how about substance-dualism, philosophical Realism?