July 16, 2003
De Long 1, Nozick 0. “And it is at this point in his argument that Nozick turns into a giant squid and floods the zone with inky blackness.”
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Fred ::: (view all by) ::: July 17, 2003, 05:23 AM:
I picked up a Robert Nozick book at a book sale and mistook it for a piece of crank literature; I bought it for a laugh and was chagrined when I realized that the author was an eminent Harvard prof.
This was the jacket excerpt which confused me:
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"Truth is embedded in space-time and is relative to it. However, truth is not socially relative among human beings (extraterrestrials are another matter). Objective facts are invariant under specified transformations; objective beliefs are arrived at by a process in which biasing factors do not play a significant role. Necessity's domain is contracted (there are no important metaphysical necessities; water is not necessarily H20)"
David Moles ::: (view all by) ::: July 22, 2003, 05:57 PM:
Well, that’s Objectivism in a nutshell, isn’t it?
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