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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Heidegger
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In article <pfoley-0906960305420001@news.earthlink.net>
pfoley@earthlink.net (Patrick Foley) writes:

> 
> These distinctions have no real justification though do they?  If you're
> in a position to figure out how certain your various beliefs are, then you
> just _know_ everything.  So probably by "certainty" you mean, hell I don't
> know, how strongly you feel about your belief or something.

How likely you think it is to shortly change.  


> 
> I guess what always puzzles me is why you want to keep words like "truth"
> and "knowledge" and redefine them.  Why not let them stand with the
> meaning everybody else gives them and say, "You're wrong to think you
> _know_ [. . . ]; in fact, you only _believe_ it."  Hmmm.  I guess to make
> your point at all you're going to have to use words like "wrong" and "in
> fact" if you're not using "true" and "know".  So you _do_ have to claim at
> least some of the realists's vocabulary to tell them they're "wrong". 
> That's a funny thing, isn't it?  I'll be damned if I know what it tells
> us.
> 

There's a difference between the ordinary use of these words and the
use to which they're put in these discussions of their meaning. 
Pragmatism is simply the pointing out of this difference.



> Cheers,
> Pat


David

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
