[lbo-talk] science, objectivity, truth, taste and tolerance

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Oct 4 11:13:04 PDT 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Now the radical skepticism that ravi is practicing is sufficient to deny
>_any_ claim to knowledge, scientific, pre-scientific, what have you. And
>the best answer usually to radical skepticism is not Dr. Johnson's stone
>but merely changing the subject. It is not worth arguing because nothing
>follows from it.
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Wittgenstein, /On certainty/ is good on the pointlessness of these "egg & sperm" or "My hands exist" arguments.

Miles



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