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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
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In article <pfoley-0606961754240001@news.earthlink.net>
pfoley@earthlink.net (Patrick Foley) writes:

> David Swanson wrote:
> 
> > Telling the truth is telling what one believes ("to be true").  What
> > one believes are a series of notions one finds useful.
> 
> Then, on being questioned by Michael Tobis, he wrote:
> 
> > You're working with a narrow notion of utility.  As I am using the
> > term, it is useful to know what happens when one walks off roofs or
> > looks through telescopes.
> 
> So, by substitution, telling the truth is (sometimes at least) telling
> something you believe because you _know_ it.
> 
> Is this Professor Rorty's latest gloss on pragmatism?
> <pfoley@earthlink.net>

What one believes **IS** what one knows, and for that reason I used the
word **IS**.  Where your "because" came from I haven't a clue.  


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.
