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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (23176)	2/19/2012 6:24:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

It teaches you that you don't know something until you can demonstrate it. Depending on exactly what you mean by know, not really. The validity of the most basic ideas behind science can not itself be demonstrated. I buy in to those ideas rather strongly, but if you can't know anything that isn't demonstrated, then you can't know anything (including what has been demonstrated scientifically). For the strongest tightest possible meaning of know, then yes, I can't know that slavery is wrong, but I can't know that any observation is correct either (or that any mind other than my own exists, or that anything I perceive is real). If you mean "know" to mean "to be certain that" then your right I can't know what I've claimed, but I haven't been defending the idea that I know it in that way (or even to a lower standard that would normally be called certain, but isn't really absolute certainty). I specifically said that my ideas in this area may be wrong, I think more than once. I just said they are ideas about reality. If reality does not match them, then they are false ideas about reality, which I've acknowledged as a possibility.

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