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Old Apr 8, 2008, 10:27 pm   #3 (permalink) (top)
ryanatau
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What criterion should we use to prefer one criterion over another?

Inevitably all arguments can be analyzed to a core set of axioms that can only be accepted through an appeal to authority. So how do we judge which starting place is best?


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