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Re: Leaked papers show Britain trying to weaken plan for EU carbon cuts.
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Author: Adrian
Date: Sep 17, 2008 23:50

... here and £y/2 there, why on earth SHOULDN'T the more cost-effective option be taken? The move would let firms and countries import more carbon credits to count against their ... rather than local, why is this a problem? Even better, of course, is the fact that implementation of technologies taken as granted in the west will reduce the emission of locally-acting pollutants in those developing countries, as well as globally-acting ...
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Re: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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Author: turtoni
Date: Sep 11, 2008 08:06

... this. Poems and songs are easier to remember. Also, even today artistic inspiration is not entirely accounted for within the mental mechanic, even though it is taken for granted that this happens 'in one's own mind'. Still, it is typical for arty people to describe their work as 'coming to them' as opposed to ...
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Re: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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Author: ZerkonX
Date: Sep 11, 2008 07:50

... to this. Poems and songs are easier to remember. Also, even today artistic inspiration is not entirely accounted for within the mental mechanic, even though it is taken for granted that this happens 'in one's own mind'. Still, it is typical for arty people to describe their work as 'coming to them' as opposed to ...
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Re: The Twin Paradox
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Author: tg
Date: Sep 3, 2008 08:11

... because you are familiar with whatever the thing is 'like'. -tg -tg Coming across as 'claiming' Eastern-ness, is understandable. The attempt is more to include it. Excluding 'Western-ness' is impossible. It is taken for granted.
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Re: The Twin Paradox
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Author: ZerkonX
Date: Sep 2, 2008 06:35

...is not just 'my' logic. So the reason for the post is to see how this stands up to challenge. Coming across as 'claiming' Eastern-ness, is understandable. The attempt is more to include it. Excluding 'Western-ness' is impossible. It is taken for granted.
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Re: Existentialism and nonexistence theories
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Author: turtoni
Date: Aug 16, 2008 00:40

... come to question...what exactly is 'SELF" that we really are?  Absolute existentialism seems  to me to be a bleak, lonely, isolation where nothing it taken for granted and everything is questioned, even one's own validity When you're climbing a mountain you'd better be objective, heh? Lotta love those armchairs. [perhaps useful in ...
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Re: Existentialism and nonexistence theories
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Author: tooly
Date: Aug 15, 2008 16:44

...and originality come to question...what exactly is 'SELF" that we really are? Absolute existentialism seems to me to be a bleak, lonely, isolation where nothing it taken for granted and everything is questioned, even one's own validity [perhaps useful in some critique]. Expressionism might be a close cousin in philosophical argument (in the ...
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Re: is the BORG the anti-christ *?*
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Author: THE BORG
Date: Aug 13, 2008 06:56

... how we = plural and us - plural. We have explained 7-8 times now - it may be better if you purchased a book on basic simple English grammar. We are aware that you are American. But in England this kind of basic education is taken for granted. THE BORG
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Re: THE PROBABILITY OF HELL
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Author: Free Lunch
Date: Aug 11, 2008 17:09

... current trends (modernism) in epistemology of fact and of method takes for granted the ultimacy of brute facts. I've always stated that one must... then made correlative to one another. I cannot accept that assertion without support. It is taken for granted by this scientific methodology that there is a realm that is truly known to man, even though God be not taken into the picture. Or even if it be admitted that we perhaps ...
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Re: THE PROBABILITY OF HELL
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Author: lsenders
Date: Aug 11, 2008 14:46

... current trends (modernism) in epistemology of fact and of method takes for granted the ultimacy of brute facts. I've always stated that one must first ... which there are irrational facts and the two are then made correlative to one another. It is taken for granted by this scientific methodology that there is a realm that is truly known to man, even though God be not taken into the picture. Or even if it be admitted that we perhaps need a...
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