X-Message-Number: 19148 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Kirby Ulrey <> --0-482984359-1022274259=:10575 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Okay, I played the philosopher's game. I was told that I was a psychological reductionist, and a risk taker to boot! I looked up psychological reductionism, and I discovered some rather amusing facts. The fact that I found most interesting was that Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) argued against psychological reductionism on the following basis: even after providing a psychological explanation for individual acts of suicide, there was something unaccounted for: different suicide rates in different societies. My question: were these societies not composed of individuals? Ideas come from individual thought, even if it is with observations made from other sources. (Such as thinking about flight after watching birds. Wouldn't that be a rather amusing origin of the events of Kitty Hawk in 1903?) Robert Heinlein had it right; behaviorists wouldn't have jobs if they relied on logic. Here's to the infinite voyage, Kirby Ulrey --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience --0-482984359-1022274259=:10575 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19148