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In article <01bbedd7$fe23ef20$c3ec48c2@chrisb>, "dog" <dog@dog.net.uk> wrote:

> you are confusing explanation with fact, a common error when you attempt to
> reconcile the world from the point of view of objective reality.
> 
> here is the fact: people try to explain their world based on their
> experience. this experience is necessarily subjective. there is no such
> thing as objective experience. all scientific fact is explanation, a theory
> subject to endless revision, something credible but never knowable.

So what you're saying is: experience can't be quantified. It can only be
Kant-ified. Ain't it fun to pun. Sublime to rhyme.

But I don't quite agree with what you're saying about "scientific fact."
You can only say that it's "never knowable", if you assume that it really
_is_ explanation. If you think of "explanation" as a level of description,
then scientific facts become knowable. This, anyway, is more consistent
with the rest of what you say, and I think, for the most part, the rest of
what you say is right.

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