Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [Platt] > Be that as it may, it seems to me your view amounts to: "In the end > we know that we can know nothing, even though for practical purposes > we fool ourselves into thinking we can." Am I wrong? > > [Arlo] > Depends on your definition of "know". By all pragmatic counts, we > certainly can "know" things. And this isn't "fooling ourselves", its > just a recognition that this is as good as it gets. Its like saying, > we can get to 99.9999999999999.... % certainty, but we can never, by > virtue of the game, reach 100%. Is that last .00000000000000001% a > big deal? No, it is neither something we should deliberately ignore, > or something we should dwell on incessantly. It just _is_. And that's an absolute fact. Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-) ------------------------------------------------- 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/
