Re: Determinism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 23:50:28 BST

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    Hi Aaron Agassi -

    >> >Knowledge of the truth, however, is never certain.
    >>
    >> Ah, but 'knowledge of the truth', is, to me, science.
    >
    >Then your definitions, I hope, are provisional! Because Science is only the
    >quest for truth. Knowledge, such as it is, the output there of.
    >
    >
    >>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'....
    >
    >Science, yes, truth, no.

    I fail, here, to see where you disagree with me, although, for some
    reason, perhaps the cruel and relentless pressure we all give each other
    here, I thought you did....

    Sorting and juggling most all terms, we come up with 'knowledge of the
    truth is provisional' where we both reside, I strongly suspect, in
    languid commonality.

    The provisions of science, however, are filling and enduring, teaching us
    to fish, whereas the provisions of belief are wists in a fading morn,
    offering one in a basket.

    It is what is done with this knowledge, and how far it is allowed to go,
    that most concerns me in my day to day blinks at what's out there. Who
    calls the basket 'truth', and who crawls for bait.

    - Wade

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