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To: Graystone who wrote (29566)1/31/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: Father Terrence  Respond to of 108807
 
I gave you your example. And the example of Franklin dealt with the understanding of electricity, the knowledge of lightening, NOT where ALL knowledge started from.

You are a very poor debater because you don't listen.

FT



To: Graystone who wrote (29566)1/31/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Squabbling about angels dancing on the head of a pin

Graystone, without ploughing through the rest of the postings, here's one answer to your I am still waiting for one example.

Alexander of Macedon.

Otto von Bismarck

Ptolemy

Euclid

Naturally, you can dismiss all as products of the stored experiences of the collective. Your reasoning would not be faulty if you did so. However, the first two also used the collective; all four individually moved it in new directions.

It seems that you and Terrence are drawing an artificial dialectic.