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On 8/31/10 1:37 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:COL119-DS6534FCD01E578698E5875BD8A0@phx.gbl"
type="cite"><font face="Calibri">...valid standards that you
suggest for deciding the validity of arguments, facts,
effectiveness, and usefulness are defined by and within, have
meaningfulness and significance within, and are acceptable and
valid within the context and parameters of a given system
of thought and that systems of thought are themselves grounded
in and bounded to philosophical positions which are culturally
dependent and relative. <br>
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Does this assertion "have meaningfulness and significance within -
and is acceptable and valid within - the context and parameters of a
given system of thought [which is itself] grounded in and bounded to
philosophical positions which are culturally dependent and
relative"? <br>
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Or is it absolute (in the sense of being true whatever else is
true)?<br>
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