Eubulides wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> Outside of a technical journal in philosophy, I think my original
> assertions (without offering any "proof" should do the trick. :-)
>
> Or one could add the observation that anyone who tries to incorporate
> the first into his/her writing will soon have no readers, as will be the
> case if anyone tries to deny the second. Some arguments you don't refute
> -- you just ignore.
>
> Carrol
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> Reflexivity alert!!
I think Langer (Philosophy in a New Key) suggests something like this. Philosophical systems aren't disproven; they are simply abandoned.
Anyhow, my second paragraph is an empirical claim and can be tested. Find a writer devoting him/herself to demonstrating that humans can achieve perfect and complete knowledge, and determine whether that writer has any readers. It's a proper proposition even in logical positivist terms, since its falsifiable.
:-)
Carrol