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- From: "Gary A. Cziko" <g-cziko@UIUC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: awareness of error/ignorance
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- [from Gary Cziko 921219.0440 GMT]
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- Bruce Nevin (Fri 921218 13:24:41)
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- I enjoyed your:
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- >> Melius invenitur veritas ex errore quam ex ignorantia
- >>
- >>"It is easier to arrive at truth from error than from ignorance."
-
- exchange with Martin Taylor. Your discussion reminds me of Socrates who
- when told that the oracle had said he was the wisest man in Athens set off
- to find wiser men. He discovered that whom he considred the wisest men
- thought they knew a lot but didn't really know anything while Socrates knew
- that he himself knew nothing but knew he knew nothing. So he finally
- agreed that the oracle was right after all.
-
- I like the motto, but is your Latin good enough to make a revision? I
- would much prefer something like "get closer to" or "draw nearer to" than
- "arrive at." Would something like "advenitur" do it? This reflects my
- Popperian sympathies.--Gary
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