michael perelman wrote: > Consequently, the Truther theory is irrefutable, but not necessarily > true.
For empirical matters (as opposed to purely logical ones), we can't prove a negative: we can't _prove_ that there is no God, that a small clique of US leaders didn't cause 911, or that Saddam didn't have WMDs. (On the last, he could have FedExed them to Greenland and we just haven't found them yet. And why does the US government want to explore Mars?) > I doubt that anything will come of this discussion. Wouldn't we do better to > learn more about the economy?< Some people think that the truther theory is really important. It's been claimed that entire communities of leftist activists have become totally focused on 911 "Truth," shutting down their other activities. It seems to me that at this point in history, we on the left have to rethink our perspectives, preparing for the future while avoiding the mistakes of the past. The truther perspective seems like one of those mistakes. -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
