Sun 14 Feb, 2010 07:29 pm - [QUOTE=MMP2506;127953]In a discussion that is over 50 pages long, the topic will stray a bit away from it's original intention. It is all necessarily connected, therefore there is meaning to... (view)
Sun 14 Feb, 2010 09:20 am - Hello all,
Little did I know that my original thread would run to so many pages. I feel that it is time for me to bow out for the time being due to the fact that I do have a life (real or... (view)
Thu 11 Feb, 2010 07:12 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127039].
(By the way, what would it mean for knowledge to come before truth? In what sense of before? Temporally? Spatially? I don't think it means anything).[/QUOTE]... (view)
Thu 11 Feb, 2010 09:28 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;126718]I don't understand what contrast there is between truth (absolute or not) and belief. But I do know that there is a contrast between belief and knowledge. There is an... (view)
Wed 10 Feb, 2010 07:12 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;126631]Please explain what it is you mean by, [B]but it can only ever be a belief. [/B]
"Only" a belief as contrasted with what?[/QUOTE]
Absolute truth (if it exists)... (view)
Tue 9 Feb, 2010 05:47 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;126437]If what is believed is well justified, it is not coincidence that it is true.
I know that is your view. But don't you have some reason to believe it is true. (What... (view)
Tue 9 Feb, 2010 09:03 am - [QUOTE=TickTockMan;126289]But this doesn't mean that sub-atomic particles [I]can't[/I] exist, does it?
And as far as the impossibility of measuring and quantifying them,
wouldn't it... (view)
Tue 9 Feb, 2010 08:06 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;126277] We do not know if we are in error, but not if we might be in error. We are not certain if we [I]might[/I] be in error. But knowledge and certainty are different. So, what... (view)
Mon 8 Feb, 2010 06:40 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;126179]Why, on earth, would that be a reason for its being possible?[/QUOTE]
Do we really have to go over that again? Okay, briefly.
1.All we can ever know of the outside world... (view)
