From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 19:33:51 MDT
Harvey writes
> So now that we're all agreed, we don't have to go through this whole
> argument again. There's no point in debating whether anything is 100%
> provable, or whether logic and science are valid methods or not.
>From time to time there will be those who rise up and say
"science is no better guide to reality than spirituality",
or "much truth is not accessible to our rational modes of
thought", and so on. They'll have to be steadily challenged!
I would say "the importance of rational thought and logical
analysis must always be defended", but I fear that those
terms are subject to too much misinterpretation, or can
tent to devolve into the banal. So I'll say instead:
The methods of careful, cool, rational, skeptical analysis
are what brought us practically all the progress we have;
and the clean, simple, and powerful epistemology of Pan
Critical Rationalism is the best ever found.
> There really is no major flaw in logic or science, or major
> call for us to change our ways to something different instead.
Quite right.
Rafal adds
### I couldn't speak for the other participants in this thread
### but yes, as I see it you are exactly right.
I agree with Harvey and Rafal entirely. Next thread:
"On Spirituality" :-)
Lee
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