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On Sunday, February 17, 2002, at 07:03 , Richard Brodie wrote:
> 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.
Indeed....
Nice to know.
However, I'm more than willing to consider all sorts of things. As a
result, I haven't settled upon any faith that produces results in my
life. Then again, I really don't think there are any models (qua models)
that can't be tested empirically. Supernatural things don't model.
I can't be happy with a faith I don't have. Or unhappy. I am
disinterested in faith. If you consider that a faith, so be it. But
you're using a definition of the word that I am not aware of.
- Wade
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