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From: "Chris Taylor" <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Determinism
> > Now you speak of knowledge, not truth. Truth, after all, may be unknown.
> > But never provisional.
>
> Yep. That's what I meant from the off, I just wasn't clear I suppose.
> Truth is a slippery thing and I wouldn't want to make any claims about
> it.
>
The distinction between truth and knowledge has already come up. And truth
isn't so slippery. Truth is correspondence to reality in statements.
Knowledge there of is distinct.
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> Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
> http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/ »people»chris
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