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On 6 Feb 2001, at 20:38, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:30:07AM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > On 6 Feb 2001, at 13:44, Robin Faichney wrote: > > > That's one way
> of looking at it. There are many others. None is > > objectively,
> inherently superior: meaning is only consistent within a > > language
> game, and both context and goal are required to determine > > what's
> right. > > > I do not accept the paradox of absolute relativism, where
> no answer > is any better or worse than any other.
>
> And I don't accept your paradoxical relative absolutism.
>
> Answers are nearly always better or worse than each other. All I'm
> saying is, we need to know the context of the question in order to
> reliably judge that. We don't even understand the question unless we
> know its context! Your attempt to transcend context results only in
> vacuous jargonizing. Context is what keeps us down to earth.
> Level-headed. You know?
>
My context remains experimental verisimilitude; the pragmatic
'what works is more likely to be true' has been the bedrock of
scientific inquiry since its inception.
> --
> Robin Faichney
> robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
>
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