Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Well, at last an answer to my question. Thanks. But why do you say all this > is an analogy? Analogous to what? > > [Arlo] > There are no absolute truths... including that statement. > > All this is just an analogy... including this sentence. > > Every form of knowledge rests on assumptions... including this one. > > These all say the same thing. > > So when you say, "every form of knowledge rests on assumptions", to be correct > you need to say "based on my assumptions, every form of knowledge rests on > assumptions". > > Unless you are saying that the knowledge that every form of knowledge rests on > assumptions is, itself, NOT based on an assumption. Self-contradiction. > > Otherwise you embrace the paradox. Just pointing that out. > > "Every form of knowledge rests on assumptions" is an assumption. > > There is no escape.
Again I ask, "Analogous to what?" and "When is a form of knowledge based on an assumption not always true?" ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
