Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA03725 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:16:47 GMT Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:11:14 -0800 Message-Id: <200202180511.g1I5BE206558@mail23.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [65.80.163.167] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Words and memes: criteria for acceptance of new belief or meme Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com> <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> RE: Words and memes: criteria for acceptance of new belief or memeDate: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:03:50 -0800
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><<"Faith" bypasses judgment-making mechanisms.>>
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>Not at all. It simply gives a high truth value to certain propositions.
>Faith is not specific to irrational religious beliefs. Wade, for instance,
>has supreme faith in empiricism and is unwilling to consider models that
>lack empirical testability. I would guess he is happy with his faith and the
>results it produces in his life.
>
Richard, in his memetically leveling mindset, has filtered the telling difference between knowledge and faith, that is, the presence or absence of testable evidence (that is, repeatable under controlled conditions), according to the verification principle, for proferred contentions. In fact, since empirical testing routinely produces useful results as to what will and will not work, and thus ceaselessly proves itself to be veridical to a high degree of probability (unlike faith, which can only manifest in the absence of Popperian falsifiability/verifiability), the evidence for its functional efficacy is ubiquitous.
>
>Richard Brodie
>www.memecentral.com
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