Re: Determinism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 06:49:45 BST

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    Hi Aaron Agassi -

    >> "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.

    Truth, like Archimedes' paradox, is something we can only get half as
    close to every time, then?

    And all knowledge is only in degrees of distance?

    That is my interpretation of what I think you are saying truth is,
    although, honestly, I'm getting more and confused about whether or not
    you've come halfway yet....

    - Wade

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