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Old 10-02-2006, 11:54 PM
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Your response evidences a confusion between what is knowable and what is known

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Originally Posted by perplexity
In which case, logically, none are true,
in so far as a truth is known by determination.
These are the words you previously tried to put into my mouth. Thank you for at least owning them now. From that the truth among alternatives is not knowable, it does not follow that none are true. To say otherwise is tantamount to saying that 2+2=4 only if one has knowledge that 2+2=4. That you do not allow for possibility of truth independent of human attendance or knowledge is your thesis, not mine, and certainly not mine for purpose of this thread. Let us say for argument that historian X's account of the Spanish Armada is true. My point is that its truth cannot be determined by a reading of the account, nor by comparative survey of it against other accounts of the same event.

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Originally Posted by perplexity
What else is a "truth"?
Again, how is this germaine to my thread? And why is truth in quotes? Are you asking a question or fostering an agenda?
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