PhDs take longer than 5 minutes Georges (otherwise universities would lose money) - they are just worth about 5 minutes coinsideration (I mark them - no typo, fees are not generous!). It's easy enough to write stories about someone believing something no one else does and even being right. It is harder to explain why simple truth-telling meets such derison from people in power, and why pepople trying to tell the truth meet so little success. There's a book called 'The Liar's Tale' by Jeremy Campbell that summarises much of the philosophy. Your approach is good Quiet and consideration of how we use the branding of insanity in theories of knowledge interesting. Quine had it this as down to world views and problems with empirical evidence.
On 3 Nov, 10:18, adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I could tell you tales, though let it be at: been there, done that. > I just love those aspergers who serve textbook for breakfast. Their > prejudices go back to the stone > ages. It's that cast eyes upwards look while pointedly not looking at the > victim I like. They > imagine what has been designated a nutcase does not notice. > What about "I just had a conversation with my ghost!" for starters. Groucho > Marx is good at pulling > the Mickey out of it. > > adrian > > > > QUIET VOICE wrote: > > I'm a skeptic. I don't believe in God, in chiropractice, in > > astrology, in Barak Obama, in megavitamins, you name it, I don't > > believe in it. But consider the following scenario. You are in an > > English class at college, and your professor gives you the following > > assignment: Write a story where a person believes something that > > nobody else does - and yet the person is correct. This might require > > a lot of imagination, but can it be done? > > To be more specific, imagine a man walks into a police station to tell > > them a crime story. The cop at the desk asks him to sum up the story > > in one sentence. The man says "OK, I'm being drugged by unknown > > people in my own home.". > > How would the policeman react? Would he ask for details on this > > story? Well I tried the experiment, and the policeman immediately > > phoned my relatives. He locked the door to the police station so that > > I would stay there until my relatives showed up. > > In other words, by just uttering one sentence, you can convince people > > you are insane. > > And yet like I said - remember the English assignment. If you really > > had to construct a story where something like this was true - could > > you do it? > > And if you could, what does this say about Epistemology?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
