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The Axioms Of Scientific Investigation

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anglagard
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02-14-2009 4:19 AM 		Reply to: Message 16 by Straggler
02-13-2009 4:12 PM

Re: Axioms and derivations
straggler writes:
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I don't see what falsifiable, testable, verifiable thing you can do to determine that I exist? How can you ever ever ever really really know that everything you experience is not the product of your imagination?
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So you don't think therefore you are not.
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Yeah, I been through this before. Decartes>Locke>Berkley>Hume>Kant while the whole time I should have been doing some unprintable things to Carol Nagano (or others, if not her).
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All this epistemology is a dead end. Either go with Wittgenstein and accept the way things are or wander off into the desert with Carlos Castaneda.
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Edited by anglagard, : damn that proper English usage i always see after i post
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