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Subject: [OM] Re: Did it again!
From: "Richard Lovison" <rlovison@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:35:06 -0500
Oh my, in my initial silliness I didn't realize what I was getting myself
into.  Andrew and Moose... you are definitely in a league all your own.  :)

Richard L

On 3/1/07, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>
> On 01/03/2007, at 5:09 PM, Moose wrote:
>
> >> To be contrary would be to have a particular disposition, a tendency
> >> to disagree with any particular suggestion or instruction.
> > And absent any particular suggestion or instruction, there is no
> > contrariness. No object, no action. We could have a nice existential
> > discussion about latent, as opposed to active, contrary behavior,
> > but I
> > don't think that would fit in with your next topic. :-)
>
> A 'disposition' is the potential to act in a particular way.
> Existential definitions of latent behaviours? - oh I love it when you
> talk dirty! Given that existentialism is about choices made, latency
> would seem to me to be irrelevant except in rather archaic concepts
> of will.
>


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