On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:04:37 PM UTC-5, myriadsma...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:56:13 PM UTC-5, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:49:17 PM UTC-4, myriadsma...@yahoo.com   
   wrote:   
   > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:47:16 PM UTC-5, Eric Vinyard wrote:   
   > > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-4, litewave wrote:   
   > > > > > I wrote a paper where I suggested that the whole reality is based on   
   the principle of logical consistency.   
   > > > >    
   > > > > That's a better way of putting it than what Ant is suggesting - which   
   is really just a paper thin disguise for the old Christian addage that "God   
   works in mysterious ways" and we should all just trust things that don't make   
   sense... because God.    
   And stuff.   
   > > > >    
   > > > > It is through logic that we uncover the consistency of reality.   
   > > >    
   > > > We murder to dissect.   
   > >    
   > > Heh. Maybe we'll have to destroy the universe to finally understand it.   
   >    
   > Wordsworth's response to the vitalist/mechanist debate.   
      
   Sometimes called emergentism.   
      
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