From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 04:55:40 GMT
Erin said:
It's not useful to say knowledge is a consensus of
opinion because the trend in this instance is away
from knowledge.
Matt:
How can you tell? Only if you know that what was running through town was
really a horse, i.e. only if Reality was something to corresponded to,
could you know if the townspeople were moving farther from knowledge. If
we only had that report, that people were moving day by day from "horse" to
"rhino," we would tend to think that what was running through town was a
rhino. The point is, only if you have what Hilary Putnam calls a "God's
Eye" point of view can you hold out and say that the townspeople are moving
away from what the thing really is. Its not just you not being a
townsperson (say, from another town) because that would be about
translation. The only way to hold out for True Knowledge is if someone can
penetrate to the Way Things Really Are.
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