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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6530)6/22/2003 4:56:06 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
What he appears to mean is that you rely on "logic" and "deductive reasoning" and so forth. But if a person relies on some capricious framework such as "Trolls esist, the grass is the hair of trolls--and the grass will give you certainty if you eat enough of it" and proceeds from there, you would make a whole set of different predictions about what you "know."

Within the different frameworks, the knowledge is roughly equally certain and convincing. A person who believes the world is square or made of cheese or that trolls rule is equally convinced within his "framework". And you can't "prove", Karen, to those who repudiate logic, that logic and reason is more or less "true" than the "frameworks" used by those not using the framewok of logic, etc. I have it on good authority that you really ought to consider this as an insurmountable problem. <gg>
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