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Subject: Re: Scientific epistomology  (was: "Social Text")
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In article <31B1581A.73CB@redshift.com>
Mike Wright <darwin@redshift.com> writes:

> If you currently believe that David is wrong, then it is true that David is 
> wrong. David said so. Of course, if David is wrong, then the fact that you 
> currently believe that David is wrong is not necessarily true. Does this 
> begin to look like one of the famous self-referential paradoxes?


"What do you believe?" = "What do you believe is true?"  These two
questions are the same.  "I believe" = "I believe it's true"

"I think...but that may not be true/right" = "I think it's true
that...but I may come to change my mind."



David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
