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   From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <1141362269.386727.292910@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,   
   kevirwin  writes   
   >Maybe I'm showing my ignorance, but I don't know what IANDS is.   
   >   
   >a little help, please??   
   >   
   >I just recently found this site (and wherever else it may wind up   
   >getting cross-posted?!?!) and I'm TRULY  interested in most facets of   
   >philosophical discourse. I'm probably not, okay, SURELY not, as   
   >literate on the subject as most, but I have read some, such as Hume,   
   >Sartre, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche. And I have an ABSOLUTELY GENUINE   
   >interest in discovering why people believe what they do, as opposed to,   
   >telling them why they are wrong in their belief or thought. I had an   
   >interesting discussion with a biologist on why he believes evolution is   
   >the "truth" in a smaller forum, but I digress!!!   
   >   
   >THIS forum looks like the place to be, as long as I avoid George   
   >Hammond, so I'll find my niche.   
   >   
   Well  said, Kev.   
      
   Have you come across Karl Popper at all? I place him as the patron saint   
   of humanists, as well as being the most important philosopher of the   
   20th century. He had a very difficult personality, and his range of   
   interests (from quantum theory to experimental sociology, through logic   
   and the probability calculus) made him an easy target for derision.   
      
   Nevertheless, I strongly recommend an attempt. His writing is not   
   obscure in fact very straightforward.   
      
   Good luck!   
      
   --   
   ralph   
      
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