Subject: Re: [lojban] Set of answers encore

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:46:00 -0400

[email-masked] 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.

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