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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:25:53 EST
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- From: Remo Ostini <rxo868@CSCGPO.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: assumptions & assorted difficulties
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- Wait a minute Kathy. Who's side are you on?! :-)
-
- I don't think there is much more I can add to the discussion at this point.
- Just that I would tend to take Mike's line that much of what we call knowledge
- is constructed, if not created, by our brains. Hence it is not just a simple
- process of discovery.
-
- I don't claim that the physical limitations of our brains are a necessary
- reason why there should be a limit to what we can know. It's just that the
- proposition seems plausible to me, as I've tried to outline. I find that
- there is general unease with the idea though. Sometimes the objections are
- thought out, as in Don's case. At other times though, people seem to have
- assumed that because we are Homo Sapiens, at the top of the evolutionary tree,
- we simply will be able to know everything; or at least, everything that is
- worth knowing. To me that's just intellectual arrogance and cuts no ice.
-
- I guess it's just one of those assumptions that started the whole conversation.
-
- Have a nice day all.
-
- Remo at ANU (on a very cold, frosty morning).
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