From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 13:46:39 BST
Undeniable Facts -- Part II
Nothing exists prior to observation.
Cooperation without coercion is a devastating fiction.
You cannot distinguish evolution from disintegration without a concept of
betterness.
Scientific instruments cannot detect a society.
Values can occur without emotion.
The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always
been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
Words are an arbitrary attribution that finds its roots in fixed conventions
(spov) that are always open to attacks if something better comes along
(dq). --Davor
We all agree that we have a sensible shared language that we can use
to make statements and observations that we agree are useful
statements we can treat as true. - Johnny Moral
We can know what would be true if a context is different because, as
we change the context, which beliefs and facts count as true change. -
Matt the Enraged Endorphin
But any knowledge of the context of how our thought and knowledge is
built, the mesh of signs and signals that evolve and confer meaning, and
the contingency therein, would show you (Platt) to be undeniably wrong.
-- Matthew Stone
Truth is a high quality set of intellectual patterns.
Even postmodernists will admit that Mohammed Saeed al-Saliaf
(Baghdad Bob) did not always tell the truth.
Or will they?
Platt
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