Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:08:49 -0600

robert j. kolker wrote:
>
>
> Allan C Cybulskie wrote:
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>> And if that is a sensory illusion? And how do you know that it's
>> there when
>> you stop looking at it?
>
>
> Get someone else to look and compare notes. Intersubjective
> corroberation is a standard way of checking the validity of one's
> perceptions.
>
> If n people agree intersubjectively then what are the chances of them
> all having the same delusion?

You obviously didn't pay attention in the last two national
elections. 

-- 
"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"

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