Adrian, whatever this "appearance of illusion or a ghostly or astravlevent set" may be that you're talking about, I think it's a figment of someone's imagination, i.e. quite the opposite of reality I would say, so let's stick to reality instead, rather than your ghastly description of whatever you were referring to. Also, your etymological analysis of facts is incorrect, the word comes from the Latin facere and means 'what's done', so facts are given, they are out there, before we start giving our opinions about things. So, to describe facts as products of theories does not to make sense either, because a fact is what's done/made/occurred before we start making theories or giving opinions. Facts are parts of reality, which is founded in diversity. And yes, that's a fact!
Cheers! Sam Carana On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, adrf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeepers, first time I can take two potshots at once. > > Sam, What you call reality amounts to the physical world or phenomenological. > Recent findings > show that this is an appearance of illusion or a ghostly or astravlevent set. > A lot of people > latch onto a facet or aspect of this world and take it for the complete > answer. Diversity is > variations on a theme one can call archetypes. So you're right but > incomplete. Besides as I > keep on repeating a fact is a PRODUCT of a theory, which is a pattern that > serve as a > logicalised background of a percept or observation. Fact is cognate to > feitico, west Indian > voodoo jargon, which means fetish. So in a catchphrase don't make a fetish of > any fact. > adrian > > Sam Carana wrote: >> Hi Fred, >> >> Good to hear from you. I believe that diversity is fundamental to >> reality. >> Did you read my recent thread on this, at: >> http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology/browse_frm/thread/5555b41cef633d3e >> >> Cheers! >> Sam Carana >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
