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Re: [lojban] the reason for x4 of {djuno}?




la xod cusku di'e

What if there is a dispute between two people?

What if there is? One says that Sydney is the capital of Australia,
the other claims that it is Canberra. If they share a common
epistemology they will in this case fairly quickly be able to
figure out who is right and who is wrong.

If the realm of discussion
is of a certain type, mathematical proofs and scientific experiments will
break the deadlock

Right, in many cases that is how the common epistemology is
developed.

-- although in practice, bad scientific stances often
linger until their adherents die off and are replaced with a new
generation of scholars.

Right. And why would we want to claim those bad scientific stances
as truths?

But what about the disputes between Trotskyists
and Maoists? Which is correct and which is incorrect in this One Truth
model?

I don't know, probably neither of them. Maybe it doesn't even
make sense to say that one is correct. I don't see how it would
help to claim that each of them knows a truth which the other knows
to be false.

And if one of them makes as assertion, doesn't it need the x4 place
filled up?

What kind of assertion? Most assertions don't have an epistemology
x4 place. Are you saying that we must accept every assertion as a
truth?

co'o mi'e xorxes


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