Re: John Searle

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From: Danny
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:36

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In article <1992Dec18.000838.26936@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>In article <BzEvzJ.1s1@cs.bham.ac.uk> ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec15.173641.17791@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>>So long as we can successfully communicate, then it doesn't matter
>>if your experience of the sky is similar to mine.  
>
>It matters to anyone who doesn't adopt the rather crude pragmatism that
>you have just endorsed. Some of us are interested in truth, not just
>whether or not something "works"

This entire discussion should be moved to sci.epistemology :)
I'm curious just what kind of theory of truth you have...  I think
my position is probably pretty close to what you call Michael's 
"crude pragmatism", I've never been able to find a coherent alternative.

Danny.

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