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Article #14414Re: True Philosophers and Thought
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:00
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:00
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foolsrushin wrote: > On 25 Apr, 00:22, Lester Zick <dontbot...@nowhere.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:12:22 -0700 (PDT), PD >> <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Obviously you've already taken a vow of consummate ignorance. Anyone >>>> can say anything publicly without making it true. >>> That's certainly correct. However, the point of using words in the >>> first place is not to establish the truth of the purported meaning of >>> those words, but to communicate. >> To communicate what? Science prefers truth. >> ~v~~ > > Contractual obligations, poems, plays, inductive infallibility? Can > the latter be communicated unambigously? Wittgenstein retreated to > language games, and rightly, Russell thought them silly. I think that was Wittgensteins point, really. Anyway science isn't there to communicate truth, its there to arrive at conceptual hyptherses that fiot the facts as they are agreed, and carry on fitting the facts so well as to allow prediction of the future to be achieved in limited cases with remarkable accuracy. > -- > 'foolsrushin.'
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