TOTALLY OT: philosophy & yawning (was: RE: Lojban is fxxxed

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

[please excuse the intrusion of a bit of idle chat]

Reading this thread reminds me of the curious and hard to explain
fact that I have no interest in epistemology whatever. Perhaps
because, without realizing it, I'm a solipsist? It's curious,
though, given that all other major branches of philosophy interest
me. But it ties in with what xod was saying about the motivation
for his interest in Lojban -- the fact that language is of no 
epistemological utility seems to whet his interest in more
metaphysical aspects.

--And.

> la xod cusku di'e
> 
> >You'd be irrational if you followed the "paradox" and, even after
> >performing that weighing and learning that some coins are fake, each time
> >I hold up one of the coins you insist (without weighing it) that you are
> >certain it's not one of the bad ones 
> 
> But I will insist, because for each coin my scale says it is good 
> If you say otherwise, it must be because your scale says otherwise 
> I might have to adjust my scale if you convince me that your scale
> is better for some reason (I won't believe that your scale has
> infinite precision either), but my scale is all I have to decide 
> So for each coin, I will say it is true. But for all the coins
> together, I will say one of them is fake 
> 
> >If you have 10M beliefs, and one is wrong but you don't know which, then
> >you are only (1 - 1/10M) certain of each of them 
> 
> I don't know how many are wrong. I could make estimates based
> on estimates on the precision of my scale, but it all gets more
> and more uncertain. What is your position? You don't believe
> anything, or do you believe that you have no mistaken beliefs?
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
> 
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