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To: Solon who wrote (48051)	3/4/2014 7:06:05 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 69300

I understand your concept of real and that is fine. What she left out of her thinking was that there are levels of understanding reality depending on what level of complexity you are functioning at. So understanding a truth is not black or white, this or that, but rather a matter of degrees and perception. As you learn your vision of understanding widens and deepens. The more you know the wiser you will be, in the aggregate. H.L Menken: for every complex problem there is a simple answer and it is usually wrong. A simple mind sees simple solutions and a complex mind sees complex answers. Same for a sociopathic or insane mind. Her world is insane, IMO. The real truth, in the end, lies in the complexity and sanity one can manage. << At the level we live and the level we make choices about what is in our best interest and so forth--I think we know what it is. The fact that knowledge is imperfect has never been a valid argument against ideas of how to live and why? On that basis there is nothing to base anything on and we can take no rational positions for or against anything. So let us leave that out of the discussion. Imperfect knowledge of "reality" is irrelevant to everything except the discussion of the imperfect knowledge of reality. One still needs to decide how to lkive with imperfect knowledge in an imperfect world.