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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 <4p3v0d$ce3@news.ox.ac.uk>
patrick@gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk (Patrick Juola) writes:

> I submit that the set of propostitions we (collectively) label as
> true successively approximates the actual distribution of events 
> observed as data -- and provides closer and closer predictions of
> the distribution of events to be received as data.  This (shared)
> distribution I choose to call reality.  
> 
>         Patrick


OK, but if 60,000 years from now somebody has a fundamentally different
way of thinking, and thus of receiving data, he may (atavistically,
poetically) call THAT reality.

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.
