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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (83874)	7/15/2000 10:40:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thanks, Bill, I seem to be better this morning, but I am still being a bit cautious. I will use this as an opportunity to elaborate: According to the common use of the term, I know a lot of things: how to drive; the primary route to New York City from where I live; my life history; major elements of my wife's life history; the main events of the history of the century; and so on. Memory can be faulty; people can lie; objections can be raised about some of these things. But confidence is high, and even a mistake does not shake the sense of substantial knowledge, anymore than a mistaken calculation would lead me to believe I didn't know math. Some of these things are more or less verifiable. But, for example, there are many things that have happened to me where I might be the only witness, or where my testimony might conflict with someone else's, so that the matter could not be settled. Suppose, for a moment, that I witnessed a murder, but there was no physical evidence sufficient to convict, and no one else to corroborate, and someone willing to offer an alibi. There is no way that I could prove that such- and- such had done it, and yet I know that he did, as well as I know anything that I experienced. It is right for the jury to acquit, but that does not make my testimony either false or opinion, only uncorroborated. This, of course, has wider applications.........