Re: Tautologies and Empirical Truth

From: Albert (alwagner_at_tcac.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:15:44 -0500

Lester Zick wrote:
<snip>
> patty, you really need to take that web of belief back to the church
> where you bought it and get a refund. It doesn't matter where ideas
> originate. It matters where they wind up through demonstration.
>
> Problematic means contingent.

Come on, Lester. You didn't even investigate her link. If you
had, then you wouldn't have replied with that stupid remark
above. Here, try again:

http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

You claim to hate philosophers, then you attempt to philosophize
without reading the works of people smarter than you and millenia
older than you. What arrogance. 

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"