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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Scientific Epistomology, or "Social Text" Editors Make Ted
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In article <31B3B99A.6087@usa.net>
David Knapp <dk@usa.net> writes:

>   It's like the mathematical statement that a given series converges
> to pi; how can we know that it does if we don't know the exact value
> of pi?  In Swanson-ese, without pi how can we converge on pi?
> 
>    Methinks a tiny bit of math might come in awfully handy to our
> friend.

c/d is to pi as ---------- is to reality.  Fill in the blank and we'll
talk.
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.
