[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:45:32 -0700
Andy Amago wrote:
> The thing that works is the truth.
and later, the same day,
Hm, what works is true. All those concentration camps worked
beautifully for years, therefore that makes them true.
Phil is not the one who believes that 'what works is the truth.' He is
trying to point out (via the earlie example of Bush's success), that if
you believe that what works is 'true' (or that 'truth is what works'),
you must believe that Bush's policies express the truth, somehow.
Clearly, you don't believe that, but to be at least mildly consistent,
you might want to show what happened between the first statement quoted
above, and the attempt to disown it in the second.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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