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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 <31B5B999.527C@usa.net>
David Knapp <dk@usa.net> writes:

>  Sorry, David.  The burden of proof is not on me, it is on _you_.  
> You made the initial claim that "without final theories one cannot
> converge on final theories."  That claim was a bald assertion.  I gave
> a counter-example that showed the logic to be incorrect.  How about you
> give some evidence or reasoning to defend your initial assertion?  Or
> do you now agree that it was faulty?

I certainly missed your counter-example.  One would have thought that
would be the thing to repeat, rather than giving a little narrative
about how you've already solved everything.  And I missed the whole
sequence in which I requested analogies and then laughed at them.  Are
you sure I was present while this was going on?  I still have no idea
how one could converge on something meaningless.  And to counter the
idea that, in any case, one can get "better and better" descriptions of
the "facts," I have in recent posts been trying to show that there are
no pretheoretical facts.


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.
