[lit-ideas] Re: First Rational Discourse creates al Qaeda, now... battle PhDs?

From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
To: donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:10:40 -0230

I thank Donal for the good cheer. Thus far, I am thoroughly enjoying myself and
even the weather is cooperating. 82 degrees yesterday out on my deck.

I think that facts only exist in the logical space of reasons; they themselves
have neither physical location nor temporal position. (You can't "lose truth"
or wonder "where did I put that fact?" or have statements "correspond" to
facts.)

Although the expressions of a fact within linguistic utterances certainly
possess spatio-temporal dimensions (in worlds 1 and 2, in your lexicon of
choice.)

The fact that I have 30 days vacation each year can easily be corroborated. But
for me to *prove* to you that this is a fact would require extensive
documentation. Perhaps that paper trail would prove to be endless: sooner or
later you'd have to trust such other facts as 1) that I have been at the
university for over 10 years, 2) that the Collective Agreement I show you is
genuine, 3) that I really am Walter Okshevsky, etc..

Walter O
MUNLESS

Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 3/9/08, wokshevs@xxxxxx <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Finally on vacation for 30 working days,
> > 
> > Walter O.
> 
> Wishing you the best on your no-doubt well-deserved vacation but also wishing
> to point out that while it is (perhaps, I only have yr word for it) a fact
> that you have thirty days vacation, that fact exists in no room. Yet it is a
> fact (perhaps). [Facts don't have to exist in rooms. It's a fact I'm not in
> the room next door. God, isn't logical thinking simple?]
> 
> D
> Bearing in mind I may have completely forgotten or overlooked LW's point
> For which, in advance, I apologise
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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