Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: OsherD (mdoctorow_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: 1 Feb 2005 23:13:24 -0800

with all facets of science and knowledge. By and large I ope­rate out
of comp.ai.philosophy but crosspost to other groups as appro­priate.

It's been one of the more successful threads I've produced b­ut I
expect Epistemology 201 will pretty much run its course over­ the next
week. It's generated well over 200 replies but participants ­seem to
have been reduced to name calling as a substitute for argume­nts.

[Osher:] Thank you, Lester Zick. Of course I should look at the
individual contributions, though I don't quite see any reason for
ending the thread as long as even 2 people (or even 1!) type something
useful. Mathematicians are supposed to be fond of numbers, but I'm
fonder of exceptions. In fact, this may be an important clue to
Knowledge, which at least among human beings seems to either diminish
with increasing numbers of people who believe something or to increase
more slowly as more people believe something (under the appropriate
context) - at least in the first generation during which some Knowledge
is discovered.

I must plead overwork in failing to thus far read most of the other
posts in this thread. In the meanwhile, try to keep the thread alive
for the sake of at least minorities of one or two.

Osher Doctorow

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