List,
I could easily say that a *dictionary* bolsters any and all
arguments...what's the point of continuing to treat me like an idiot in
front of all these nice people, Wade?
I searched for a metaphysic of "doubt". Found "Scepticism" and Descartes.
I think you are a sceptic (by which you assume that everything discerned by
the senses is only partially true at best and therefore doubt is some
inherent characteristic of being subjective). I on the other hand might
consider myself to be Cartesian...
... I gradually rooted out from my mind all the errors which
had hitherto crept into it. Not that in this I imitated the sceptics who
doubt only that they may doubt, and seek nothing beyond uncertainty
itself; for, on the contrary, my design was singly to find ground of
assurance, and cast aside the loose earth and sand, that I might reach
the rock or the clay. In this, as appears to me, I was successful enough...
>From DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING
TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by Rene Descartes
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Classic/reason.txt
I think Descartes (and certainly Berkeley) would agree that to doubt is to
be soulless and godless and without recourse to truth.
Brett
Returning,
rBERTS%n
Rabble Sonnet Retort
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains,
because the average man can see better than he can think.