--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:08:04PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > Are you really willing to accept anything that is not subject to
> > scientific testing as no more real than God?
>
> You are really cheating. You should at least answer that one question
> I asked before you get to ask me another one. But I'll give you a free
> one. I think that any knowledge that can never be tested by experiment
> is a poor and useless sort of knowledge, if knowledge it is at all. I
> guess I know where you are going with this, and if I'm right, I'd like
> to remind you about a discussion we had some time ago (years?) where I
> mentioned that most of my morals are based on what I think is the best
> way of advancing toward a Banks' Culture level of human development. And
> while that is not easily tested by experiment (I have only limited
> control over the ongoing experiment and as of now I can only run one
> experiment), it IS possible to test it experimentally. It just takes a
> very long time, and repeating it would be even more difficult.
>
Erick,
Do you consider yourself a Positivist?
Jan
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