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Sun Jun 15 11:08:12 2008
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John C. Medaille wrote:
> A self evident statement is one which is not reducible to
> any other statement and in which, once the terms are
> grasped, the truth is immediately seen. Such statements
> deal with formal relations only.


"Cogito, ergo sum."

Experience is temporal.

Humans perceive causal relationships between objects of experience.

etc.

We may not be able to produce a Misean argument by treading
this path, but we cannot simply forget about Kant and Descartes.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac


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