TRTR(1) Eye Goddesses Wearing Dipthongs

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Mon Apr 11 16:38:15 CDT 2011


On 4/11/2011 5:08 PM, David Morris wrote:
> It was your describing it as necesary that seemed a
> post-rationalization.

Oh, OK, if that's a problem I modify my sentence to it was THOUGHT 
necessary.

Just as it was thought necessary to send a bunch of new folks to 
Congress to straighten things out.

Just as it will be thought necessary in a few years to send them all 
back home again.

Doubt either event is necessary in an ontological sense.

P


>   It wasn't by any means necesary.  It was the
> victor in a power play.  The other contendors have mostly erased from
> history.
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> On 4/11/2011 3:46 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>> I think your presentation here is a prime example of post-rationalization.
>> Explaining why something occurred (or trying to explain it)  isn't the same as rationalization.




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