Re: Epistemology 101

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:21:01 +0000 (UTC)

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lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net (Lester Zick) writes:
><rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>>But what is the basis for "truth"?

>The only possible basis for truth is the mechanical reduction
>T:[not][not not] because this tautology is not regressable.

But that leads to a completely solipsistic notion of truth. The
world is irrelevant. All you do is apply logic to a set of starting
assumptions. There is no way to contact reality.

> In other
>words, every true and false relationship has to be compounded of this
>mechanism because represents the only way empirical observations can
>be linked to one another.

You assert a connection with empirical observations, but you do not
say what that is.

>Scientists can readily explain how they falsify empirical observations
>in terms of one another.

Which is to say that scientists do have some basis for truth other
than what you asserted.

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