Knowledge and Information LO30956

From: GaltJohn44@aol.com
Date: 02/14/04


Replying to LO30944 --

In a message dated 2/14/2004 9:48:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
c.rohner@uq.edu.au writes:

>Universally accepted "facts" - eg gravity, requirement of some oxygen
>mix to enable us to breath and therefore to live - Then down a line
>to "facts" that are accepted by large groups of people - eg whether
>the world in flat or not - and these are ones that might be accepted
>as not being so - disproved "facts" as it were The "fact" scale
>continues to diminish in terms of universal reliability, as smaller
>numbers of people can be found to accept/know/experience such things.
>Eg the existence or not of weapons of mass destruction in a
>particular place. Very slippery ground, my friend. If acceptance is
>the criteria for factuality then the scientific method / search for
>truth is disembowled. "Orthodoxy is the enemy of truth . . ." I
>have found (anecdotal) that acceptance and fuctuality are often
>orthagonal.

The only reaon I participate in this discussion is my belief that we
must have a pure word that encompasses both truth and existence: FACT.
Without it our entire knowledge base is self referent and, thus,
closed; ESPECIALLY if we use "universality of acceptance" as a or the
criteria for factuality.

 - Hal

Best regards,

Hal Popplewell

CEO - AgentWare Systems, Inc.
186 East Main Street - Suite 300
Northville, MI 48167
Phone: 248 - 735 - 4497
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