Re: [jboske] Lojban is fxxxed

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> Therefore for each of your beliefs, it's impossible for you to claim that
> you have no uncertainty about it. Since you don't know which ones are
> wrong, you must be equally uncertain about each of them.

I fail to see what certainty has to do with it, and that on two counts:

1) It is simply false that I am equally uncertain about each belief. The
belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is very strong, much more so than
the belief that I will make it to my 1 PM meeting on time.

2) Certainty has nothing to do with truth. I may be extremely certain,
and often have been, about some beliefs that are completely false.

-- 
Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com
Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)