Re: Determinism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 23:47:13 BST

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    Hi Aaron Agassi -

    >> >Truth is correspondence to reality in statements.
    >>
    >> That sounds more like 'quality of knowledge' to me.
    >
    >No, because we may or may not know which statements or possible statements
    >are true, i.e., actually coorespond with reality.

    Well, I'm nitpicking, but what I meant was a substitution-

    "Truth is correspondence to reality in statements" becomes "Quality of
    knowledge is correspondence to reality in statements." Thus, a high
    quality of knowledge (a statement closer to truth) is more correspondent
    to reality.

    I was more wondering where 'truth' actually _was_ in your statement.

    But, honestly, we all wonder where truth actually is, for all our quality
    of knowledge, and we're best washing our hands.

    - Wade

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