> "When I speak of knowledge, I mean something intellectual, something which
grasps what it perceives through the senses; something which takes a view of
things; which sees more than the senses convey; which reasons upon what it
sees, and while it sees; which invests it with an idea. It expresses itself,
not in a mere enunciation, but by an enthymeme...Knowledge is one thing,
virtue is another.." > > David Silver
David:
I see yer Cardinal and raise ya an Einstein:
"I cannot prove that scientific truth must be conceived as a truth that
is valid independant of reality, but I believe it firmly. I believe, for
instance, that the Pythagorean theorem in geometry states something that
is approximately true, independent of the existence of man. Anyway, if
there is a *reality* independaent of man, there is also a truth relative
to this reality; and in the same way the negation of the first engenders
a negation of the existence of the later."
Janet
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