RE: Philosophy (inching away from Definition of Racism)

From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 16:50:45 MDT


Jerry said

>How can philosophy (the overarching structure of your thoughts) not play in
>the creation of any of your indiviual thoughts? i.e. Your decision to wait
>on the traffic light is influenced by your belief that reality is
>objective,
>and that the truck about to smash you is in fact "real". Everything
>ultimatly comes back down to philosophy, its the base you operate from.

I think you are talking about a person's tacit philosophy or
crypto-philosophy. Lee is talking about something else - I was going to
write "express philosophy" but this sounds like "very fast philosophy". Hope
you know what I mean.

Russell

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