Le 16-août-06, à 03:11, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
>
> If we "realise that things cannot be as they seem" then this is new
> evidence
> and things now seem different to what they originally did! I did not
> intend
> that "things are as they seem" be understood in a narrow sense, such as
> what our senses can immediately apprehend. Complex scientific evidence,
> philosophical considerations, historical experience: all of it has to
> be added
> to the mix and whatever comes out is what we should accept as the
> provisional
> best theory. We know that it may not be the truth - indeed, that we
> might
> never actually know the truth - but it is the best we can do.
OK. (I was just interpreting you literally, a bit too much probably).
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Wed Aug 16 2006 - 10:35:35 PDT