Re: Belief & Knowledge

From: Scott D. Yelich <scott.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:04:04 -0600 (MDT)

On 5 xxx -1, Marchal wrote:
> Scott D. Yelich wrote:
> >Knowledge is when predicted.
> > If something can be predicted, then that "something" is "knowledge"
> I agree with the second sentence, but I am still uneased with the first.
> Do we know our past ? Is there a sense in saying we predict our past ?
> Bruno

I don't want to debate the direction of the arrow of time.

I am simply saying that through experience we change what we "know" ...
and that I am working with two methods of doing so. One is a low-level
"biological" method, the other is a higher-level symbolic/logical
method. The higher level depends on the lower level, or rather,
is a direct dependent of it.

Scott
Received on Sat May 05 2001 - 15:17:11 PDT