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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (59632)	9/24/2002 9:59:43 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

How can you judge reliability based on what a person tells you is reliable? For one thing most people don't know the "truth" or anything like it, even when they think they do, and for another people lie, although they don't necessarily tell themselves they are doing that.

To: Neocon who wrote (59632)	9/24/2002 11:01:22 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If the facts are highly unreliable, then we have a situation of "garbage in, garbage out". Every fact is inherently unreliable. I have no personal knowledge that Socrates was ever actually condemned to death, or that he in fact died of poison administered by the state. It could all be a fiction, a fable. But even if it were, I would still benefit from reading the dialogues.