Re: Bi-and Tri- and Quatr- and Quintifurcation

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 01:31:47 BST

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    Hi Joe E. Dees -

    >Now we have:
    >
    >1) Provisional truths
    >2) Apodictically certain (self-evident) truths
    >2) Falsehoods
    >4) Untestable assertions (beliefs)
    >5) Meaningless assertions (pseudoassertions)
    >
    >Any others?

    _If_ "Every fact is backed up by the entire universe" is a definition, if
    you will, of a scientific fact (merely 'fact' in my bifurcation), _then_
    all of your list above is fiction, (or 'false' in my bifurcation), with
    the proviso that, hmmm, it may be not altogether prudent to put your #2
    among the fictions, because, nothing can be in the entire universe at
    once to back them all up- the entire universe, by virtue of space and
    time, is unknowable at any one moment.

    But every act of language produces fiction unless it's analogous to a
    self-evident truth, such as mathematics possesses.

    And, yes, what about nothing?

    The entirely unsensible is also backed up by the entire universe.

    - Wade

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