Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hume & the Postmodern Grin without aCat(was Re: pomoistas)

[Jim Devine]

At 03:31 PM 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Going down the road of hyperbolic
>doubt gets you to the malevolent demon and deep questions about whether we
>might not all be brains in vats. I doubt these questions are of great
>practical use as preparation for socialist revolution.

Isn't that the premise of that movie with Keanu Reeves, THE MATRIX?

Can't we dismiss all these questions about induction and epistemology and 
ontology in a pragmatic way, i.e., say that our doubts and skepticism are 
really irrelevant if they don't act as a guide to practice?

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine