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- From: dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Faith (was Re: Rant! was: Fermat( was: Noah's Ark)))
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.013847.11414@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 01:38:47 GMT
- References: <4949@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Aug6.004804.23936@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <5024@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Organization: Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Adelaide
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- In article <5024@tuegate.tue.nl> wsadjw@urc.tue.nl writes:
- >In article <1992Aug6.004804.23936@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
- >>
- >>My dictionary defines "faith" simply as "unquestioning belief."
- >>
- >>Therefore the faith in science is when we have a set of unquestioned
- >>axioms.
- >
- >Ha! See the leap of faith here? Namely "what my dictionary gives as a
- >two word definition is the ultimate truth and the best possible description
- >to be used in an epistemolgical discussion". The esteemed correspondent
- >even does not say "A set of unquestioned axioms may be called a faith, at
- >least accoring to my dictionary", but boldly asserts the unqualified
- >equality of the two. ^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- I didn't want to be patronizing and qualify the obvious.
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