--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no such thing as "true knowlege" in the > natural world as all human knowledge is provisonal. > The only certainty that exists is that because we > are born, we will die. All other knowledge, is > provisionally constructed knowledge, as a heuristic > device to make sense of chaos in the world > including that 2 + 2 = 4. > Mario responds: > I would like Goanetters to read Cornel's insightful assertions above, and marvel at the fact that he has now repeated these about a dozen times. On the other hand, we should respectfully interpret these based on his perspective that there is no such thing as the truth:-)) > I see a Nobel Prize in Cornel's future for enunciating "Cornel's Law", which says that all scientific knowledge is like silly-putty:-)) At least silly-putty as we know it to be now, since silly-putty's malleability is itself "provisional" according to Cornel's Law. Real putty hardens, but silly-putty, at least as we know it now, does not. In future - who knows?:-)) > Or you may see it soon in "Believe it or not!" :-)) under the caption, "Believe it or not - under Cornel's Law, nothing is to be believed unless it suits you!" > Cornel's Law is endorsed by no other than Bill Clinton, who once famously answered a question with the preface, "It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is." No wonder Clinton is so adored by left-wingers. They can believe whatever they want about anything he says. > Cornel, while you are still obsessing on boiling water, all of Goanet, and accountants and computer programmers across the world are now worried that their calculators will show something other than the sum of two integers, or that their next airplane "may not take off" because the principles of flight have suddenly decided to take a hike. Or glad that you are not in the hospital after jumping off a building because gravity had provisionally changed and you thankfully floated upwards. > The only redeeming feature of Cornel's Law, is that Cornel's Law must also be "provisional". Whew! What a relief! :-)) >
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