[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why Newton Contributed To Human Knowledge With A False Theory
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:28:15 +0900
On Nov 29, 2007 1:05 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> John, you know your wife loves you, and she knows you love her. I
> believe you know that because you have written on that subject and I
> believed you were writing the truth. I can't explain why I know you were
> writing the truth but my experience with texts has led me to believe it
> is so. You don't approximately love her, or vice versa, and for my own
> curious reasons, I don't approximately doubt you.
Eric, I accept what you say as beyond reasonable doubt, and I thank you for
saying it.
But isn't philosophy, at least since Descartes, all about unreasonable
doubts?
John
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