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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Singularity (Gordon's idea)
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:51:43 GMT
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- In article <1ebqjgINN886@uwm.edu> pkokkone@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Pellervo Kokkonen) writes:
- >In article <BxvnAF.5HE@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >>
- >> Let's suppose a painting contains a great truth. How do you
- >> tell?
- >
- > Painting is a non-linguistic act of communication. It can
- > be true without you _telling_ anything.
- >
- > I think the same applies to religious experience. You do
- > not expect an explanation from a physicist to believe.
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- But how do you know if it's true? If I say a painting is true
- and you say it's false which is it? If your answer is "true
- for me and false for you" then you're saying it's subjective
- and that the truth or falseness is not in the painting but in
- the viewer. But I say that a smallpox vaccination renders
- someone immune to smallpox *regardless* of whether he believes
- it or even knows he's been vaccinated.
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- ---peter
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