Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?
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From: John Stafford on 14 Jan 2010 14:36 Patricia Aldoraz wrote: > You can't open your silly mouth without making terrible mistakes. The > analogy is a customer comes in and makes clear he will not pay. That > pretty well sums up you morons in the basketweaving class. You won't > play by agreed rules. You are ill bred and deserve nothing but > crowbars and foul language and dirty bath water thrown at you. Aldoraz is a damaged person. She casts all others as she has been cast, but she does not realize it does not work: we do not soak up her damage and she is not released from her own.
From: dorayme on 14 Jan 2010 18:01 In article <SAC3n.6$jE1.5(a)newsfe27.ams2>, "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_r> wrote: > "David Bernier" <david250(a)videotron.ca> wrote in message > news:himqro0cu4(a)news3.newsguy.com... > > I've been thinking about knowledge. How can somebody come to the > > conclusion, once they think they know something, that they > > actually know that thing? What are the steps to follow? > > There are no steps, they have all been taken prior to thinking they know something. If you are meaning by "thinking they know" just "they are not sure" then one makes sure one way or the other by rechecking the evidence for the proposition in question. -- dorayme
From: Nam Nguyen on 14 Jan 2010 22:22 Marshall wrote: > > Terminology, notation, yes; these are arbitrary creations of man. > The things we speak of, the things the terms refer to, > often are not. Math is not. Huh? Are you saying that "Math is not" an "arbitrary creation of man"? If that's what you meant then that's wrong, since Mathematics is a game of the mind.
From: Patricia Aldoraz on 14 Jan 2010 22:34 On Jan 15, 1:39 am, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > Zinnic wrote: > > It is working thru its boring posting algorithm again. > > I suspect you're right. I would like to know where this "basketweaving > class" is being held. I suspect that it contains some interesting > "students". It contains the chief of all morons, the sexist pig you are replying to. The basketweaving class is right there in Google Group land, it is supposed to be the locked ward part of it.
From: Nam Nguyen on 14 Jan 2010 22:44
Patricia Aldoraz wrote: > dorayme is quite right, not all maths is a game. Ok. Let's get technical. Which part of math is a game and which part is part of the Reality and therefore isn't a game of the mind? And why? |