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by Nihilus
Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:01 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko
Replies: 36
Views: 82138

Re: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko

A thousand is a bit excessive, no? I mean, it's just a nice (though healthily critical) discussion online. :)

I'm likely to poke back on.

Now, if you were offering a thousand peanut butter cups...
by Nihilus
Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:29 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko
Replies: 36
Views: 82138

Re: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko

I don't go along with any of that. For one thing, you are attempting to use logic to prove your point, one that you think is significant enough to be worth mentioning, so already you are going against everything that you express in your post. Not even you believe your own arguments, it would seem I...
by Nihilus
Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:02 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko
Replies: 36
Views: 82138

Re: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko

What about pure logic? It is logically the case that all sense-information (and therefore all scientifc theorizing) is inherently uncertain. So right here we have a significant piece of knowledge which is absolutely certain. Pure logic is a mental system based on conclusions that are presumed to be...
by Nihilus
Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:03 am
Forum: Archives
Topic: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko
Replies: 36
Views: 82138

Re: The Nature of Knowledge - Victor Danilchenko

"...I like that kind of knowledge where it wouldn't matter if the world was a virtual reality simulation, or whether it was a dream in somebody's head, or whether the laws of physics or something are gonna change or not, I like that sort of knowledge which is beyond all that and can never ever...