Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Mapplethorp/Martin
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:45:17 -0500

ARTHURWG@aol.com jotted down the following:

> Martin, as a highly intellegent man and a scholar, do you believe in good and
> evil? Right and wrong? Just wondering. Arthur

As a socially constructed ontology?  Yes.  As objective properties of the
world?  No.  I don't believe that either of the four concepts can exist
outside an interpreter.

Besides, you want to be careful about who you go calling "highly
intelligent"... ;) ;)

M.

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