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Originally Posted by asaris
irateplatypus -- I'm a bit confused. You say that "it's ex nihilo or nothing these days" (ala Descartes, I assume), but in your next post, you say, "nearly all philosophies assume things". Maybe it's just early and I'm not quite thinking straight yet, but this seems like a contradiction?
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i was just playing around by implying that "ex nihilo" grounded philosophy was in fashion at this particular time, not that all philosophy was such.
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