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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:41:00 GMT
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- Subject: It's ALL belief!
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- From Greg Williams (930101)
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- Re. "belief" (Rick, Ed, et al., recently): PCT says it's ALL belief. Of
- course, there are degrees (of "warrantability," as some of the contemp.
- philosophers say). Some of us BELIEVE in PCT and BELIEVE it warranted to
- a greater degree than belief in S-R. There is a large measure of "faith"
- and accepting authority of others even in our beliefs about Newtonian
- physics (none of us have done all of the experiments which we "accept" to
- support N.p. as a better model than Aristolelian physics for certain
- aspects of The Boss out there). It appears that the motivation for
- accepting authority in most any kind of belief is largely economic -- I
- don't have time to check all this out in detail, but I trust the "experts"
- in the area.
-
- I BELIEVE the New Year is here, so
-
- ENJOY!
-
- Greg
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