Re: Determinism

From: Aaron Agassi (agassi@erols.com)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 01:57:21 BST

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From: "Aaron Agassi" <agassi@erols.com>
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:57:21 -0400
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 6:47 PM
    Subject: Re: Determinism

    > 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.
    >
    False! Because truth may or may not be known.

    > 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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