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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: jlallen who wrote (11573)4/16/2001 5:43:47 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
How do we agree if we can never know the truth of anything?

We agree on the basis of probabilities. Enough peopple have seen the sun rises in the East that we accept it as true, even though it's possible that they were all wrong and the one shepherder in the Andes who thought it rose in the West was really the only person in the world to see it correctly.

All our "truth," at least that based on human observation, is really only probability to varying degrees of confidence.

And before you get too committed to the idea that observation is worth something, read the work of Elizabeth Loftus.

Any trial lawyer who doesn't know Loftus is incompetent, IMO.
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