Thanks and

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The great external flaw of logic is that there's no law that says people have to accept it or take it into account in any way. 

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>
>Today the conclusion McTaggart drew from his brilliant insights into the 
>internal contradictions contained in everyday  concepts of time (and 
>space) seems very very odd  (doesn't  it ?). I mean the conclusion that 
>time therefore does not exist.
>
>Our present day thinking based on the same "data" would more likely be 
>merely that perfect logical consistency is not an adaptive 
>characteristic of human thinking.
>
>We survive better as a species  using the muddled minds evolution has 
>given us.
>
>Today we are quite used to the realization that logical inconsistencies 
>are something we just have to accept.
>
>Developments in linguistics etc have certainly moved in that direction.
>
>We know we can work around these annoying little problems to arrive at 
>real-enough realities.