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From: lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 14:33:57 -0600
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On 2025-05-29 09:05, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2025 16:13:48 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-05-27 10:04, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On 26 May 2025 15:53:04 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>>>>> 1. That is an intellectualist/atheist definition of "miracle",
>>>>> intended to show that none exist. The actual meaning is "something
>>>>> worth looking at". Or perhaps "something you don't see every day".
>>>>
>>>>    However, have you heard of the "etymological fallacy," where
>>>>    someone wrongly argues that a word's current meaning must be
>>>>    the same as its original or historical meaning, ignoring the
>>>>    fact that language evolves over time?
>>>>
>>>>    I have my dictionary right here, and it says, "An event that
>>>>    appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to
>>>>    be supernatural in origin or an act of God".
>>>>
>>>>    Oops! Sorry, I was being an "intellectualist" again!
>>>
>>> Just because the intellectuals and atheists won the battle to make
>>> that the definition does not change the reality.
>>
>> Feel free to prove that what you consider to be reality is factual.
> 
> Prove /what/ is factual? Please be specific.

I already specified it. It's "what you consider to be reality".

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