From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 26 13:46:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 26 Sep 2001 20:46:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 13989 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 20:46:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Sep 2001 20:46:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 20:46:14 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06851 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB23E88.7060106@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:46:00 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Set of answers encore References: <28.1b41c63a.28e37d58@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Suppose we > did have a good indirect test for beliefs so that we could check out > your belief about a jack-tax without calling the issue to your mind [...] Shades of Smullyan's experimental epistemologist, whose machine gives him access to the physiological correlates of people's brain states. With the machine, he knows whether or not something seems red to you -- but he gets into trouble when he applies the machine to his own mind, and learns that he may be going crazy. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel