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To: Michael M who wrote (56614)	10/1/1999 5:05:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Mike, don't you understand that the world is full of people who believe they know what is in fact unknowable. That is why ridiculing someone else's beliefs may be insensitive and impolite but still be epistemologically correct (how could he possibly believe that what he pretends to know is phenomenologically correct?) while at the same time asserting the scientific truth of one's own phenomenological beliefs may be epistemologically correct (i.e. demonstrable to other intelligent beings). When one asserts his phenomenal belief in a common, widespread unfalsifiable religious theory he is simply intellectual confused. When another asserts his belief in a scientific theory, he says he says he believes that despite substantial testing, the theory has not yet been refuted, although it might be logically incomplete. No intelligent man would accept martyrdom for a noumenal theory (I might, of course, be mad.) No intelligent man would accept martyrdom for a scientific theory unless he just wants to show off.