Re: Determinism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 18:08:23 BST

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    On 04/05/01 11:11, Aaron Agassi said this-

    >Knowledge of the truth, however, is never certain.

    Ah, but 'knowledge of the truth', is, to me, science. Mixing terms
    around, 'never certain' could easily be substituted for 'provisional' in
    its "serving only for the time being" sense, thus, 'science, [however] is
    provisional'....

    QED?

    - Wade

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