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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: Determinism
> 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'
No, Zeno's...
>paradox, is something we
More specifically, *our knowledge*....
>can only get half as
> close to every time, then?
>
Yup.
> 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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