I hadn't heard from anyone in a while. I was reading the comp.ai.philosophy
newsgroup and ran across the following exchange:
"A judgement of truth is a binary decision. Most judgements are
non-binary, having to do with accepting an uncertain value as fitting
within a continuum up to a tolerance. Judgements of truth make no
allowance for "uncertain value" and "up to a tolerance."
-Neil Rickert
"This is nearly true."
-David Kinny
and it set my head to spinning. The analog vs. the binary. The wave vs. the
particle. Monism vs. Dualism. It seems so much of western understanding is
bound up in language, and when language fails so does understanding. Isn't
science itself just a set of accepted words?
Not one...not two. Who said that?
David Prince
Systems Analyst
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