Date:  Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:18:58 -0500 (EST)
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From: Rob Zook <rzook@INFORMIX.COM>
Subject:      Re: more epistemic perversity
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At 09:54 PM 2/10/98 -0300, Jorge J. Llamb=EDas wrote:
<snip>
>>All that should matter reagrding MY knowledge is whether >I< think
>>it is true, and not whether I can convince someone else of that truth.
>
>But why do you want to call your opinions/assumptions/beliefs/assertions
>knowledge? If you wanted a general word for those then you shouldn't have
>used an English word that already has a different meaning.
>
>>I think that the internal consistentcy of Lojban requires this
>>understanding of "knowledge".
>
>The internal consistency of Lojban certainly cannot require the
>redefinition of an English word. If you want to call all opinions
>"knowledge", then that's your business, but other English speakers
>will disagree. But I think you meant to talk of the understanding of
>{djuno}, not the understanding of  "knowledge".

one word Jorge: strawman.


Rob Z.
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