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Re: Real experience and fixation (none / 1)

It is, incidentally, probably a bit early to celebrate the death of reason.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 05:50:21 AM EST
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Re: Real experience and fixation (none / 1)

What could possibly make you say that? History has already ended, after all. Shouldn't reason be next :-P

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 07:16:01 AM EST
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Re: Real experience and fixation (4.00 / 4)

I'm still waiting for the birth of reason.

So far we have some labels and something which twitches into life occasionally, but given what seems to go on in everyone's mind most of the time, that's about the extent of it.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 07:35:36 AM EST
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Re: Real experience and fixation (none / 0)

After Reason's birth, I think it underwent postnatal abortion sometime during the French Revolution.

by ATinNM on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 03:11:55 PM EST
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