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pat hayes wrote:
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&gt; There is an alternative conclusion, which is that alternative ways
&gt; of thinking about a topic might all be equally valid and coherent,
&gt; even though they differ from one another.  The proposal to find a
&gt; single coherent upper-level ontology then amounts to an insistence
&gt; that all but one of these alternative ways of thinking are wrong.
&gt; This is a kind of intellectual fascism which has never succeeded
&gt; in the past several thous