Sweatin' to the oldies

Cyrus cyrusgeo at netscape.net
Fri Nov 5 08:31:11 CST 2004


When you are asked to address a specific point and you reply with "lame 
generalizations", you get an F, don't you? Or is it a PH?

jollyrogerx99 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Thanks for the Cliffsnotes to the Republic 200 Cyruss, but if you knew 
> more about Platonism --both big P and small p--you would have 
> discerned a few things:
>  
> --advocating censorship of the "inspired madness" of lyric poetry may 
> or may not imply a belief in the entire platonic ontology (Marx also 
> criticized belle-lettrists) ; 
>  
> --platonism has been for centuries (and is still by some 
> conservatives) held as a logical explanation of abstract entities (the 
> real numbers, classes, functions, various mathematical universals) , 
> and modern logicians such as Frege , Russell, and Quine  adhered to, 
> or acknowledged  various platonic concepts.
>  
> --Moreover,  the platonic "Deity" has little to do with 
> judeo-christianity....and its mostly  lit. creeps that have seemingly 
> decided that "truth" doesn't "exist" ( though not recognizing the 
> juvenile  contradictions in that assumption)
>
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