Re: Can we ever know truth? - simulation

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:34:59 -0000

> I think this is wrongheaded. You doubt that you really assume "things are
> how they appear to me" - the Earth appears flat, wood appears solid, and
> electrons don't appear at all. What one does is build, or learn, a model
> that fits the world and comports with "how they appear". I see no reason
> not to call this model "reality", recognizing that it is provisional,
> because there's no point in speculating about a "really, real reality"
> except to suppose there is one so that the model is a model *of* something.

And so that the model can be corrected, and so that reality doesn't
disappear when the model does....actually , there are
aquire a lot of reasons for believing in reality.


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