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To: TigerPaw who wrote (198475)	8/30/2004 5:56:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1574076

I mostly referred to the notion that truth can be determined by absorbing the provided evidence and reliving, internally at least, the events to see if they are plausible. How is one supposed to internally relive the events? In your imagination? That's hardly solid evidence. By reconstructing the known facts, and examining the possible scenarios? That can work but its hard when the evidence is both slim and contradictory. You seem to imply that if you are not a primary participant to an event that you cannot have any idea what went on. Not at all. You can have all sorts of ideas. It just hard to know which one is true, in cases where you are relying on contradictory eye-witness accounts from over three decades ago, and little or no other evidence. Empathy has just about nothing to do with it. Some people feel empathy for Kerry, some for the swiftvets, I suppose a very few for both, and very many for neither, but in no cases does this empathy prove anything. It might convince you to believe one side or the other but it isn't objective evidence. Tim

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