Reply #67: I'm sorry, but just what great revelations have you come up with here? Nothing but...

[TreasonousBastard]

vague insults and snotty remarks from what I've seen.

I made an unfortunate suggestion to another anklebiter in this thread that got it deleted, but I'll repeat the salient parts...

I minored in this stuff about 40 years ago, but haven't spent a lot of time keeping up with it since, so there's a lot of new thought I'm not aware of.

Instead of simply decreeing that I, and others, are wrong and you won some sort of prize, why not be specific and fill me in on the latest trends on rationalism, empiricism, and anything else that might have popped up in the meantime. So far you have just sneered at mentions of Plato without explaining how your own extraordinary background allows you to simply pronounce me a simpleton and move on to greater victories.

So, educate me, and humblebum, on specifics of precisely how I am wrong in my acceptance of the possibilities of non-rational and non-verbal forms of gaining knowledge. References would be appreciated.

I'll be in the library refreshing my memory with sources that are unavailable without a subscription. I've been away from this for far too long.