Ernest Schaal wrote:
> in article 418CD05E.9D978D80@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
> etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 11/6/04 10:23 PM:
> 
> 
>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why don't you get off the metaphysical kick
>>
>>Why don't you get off the "metaphysical" kick and use a better term like
>>"truth"? You keep on clinging to what humans, particularly the amateurs,
>>"find" and hope you are never on the wrong end (nor again, if it has already
>>happened) because the system you entrust are not capable of knowing the truth.
> 
> 
> The problem with talking about the "truth" is that it is not something that
> be readily discovered. Just look at how long we have been looking for the
> "truth" about disease and yet we still don't fully know the mechanism of the
> common cold and how to prevent it. Constantly, in science, people are making
> new interpretations of reality, based on new discoveries and new data.
> 
> The use of the word "truth" makes it sound like you think you fully
> understand what that "truth" is. According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty
> Principle, we can never truly know.

Holy fuck. Stop it. Now.

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Kevin
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