On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, John Bellamy Foster wrote: > criticisms that such and such views are "dogmatic." And one should avoid > making such a charge oneself. It falls short of critique, and simply relies > on the ("dogmatic"?) 0notion that indeterminacy (or philosophical > scepticism) is always a superior point of view. (A very comforting view for > apologists of the existing order who prefer the absolute negative to the > negation of the negation--that is a determinate negation.) So you're saying that we live in a dogma-eat-dogma world, right? One of my favorite bumper stickers reads, "My karma ran over my dogma". -- Dennis