Re: Postmodernists have nothing useful to contribute (was: American education)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 21:52:40 MDT


At 11:39 PM 9/2/02 -0400, Eliezer wrote:

>The fact that
>*we* are uncertain about these facts and that we are aware of *our own*
>uncertainty does not mean that we should model the *universe* as being
>uncertain about the same subject matter.

The only people who make the latter claim, to my knowledge, are magicians
and (within strict bounds) quantum theorists.

Damien Broderick



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