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To: BenLurkin
If I drop my pencil it will fall to the floor. That is a fact.

It would seem so -- but alas. Are you only dreaming? Are you under the influence of mind altering drugs? Are you insane? Have you misremembered a suggestion as an actual occurance you witnessed. All these are possible explanations for your "observation" that change it from "fact" to imagination.

You can say there is a line between "fact" and "theory" but it is going to be arbitrary. In reality, everything we believe is a theory. We self-assign more confidence to some theories than others.

223 posted on 06/22/2003 8:20:05 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
If in reality, everything we believe is a theory, then reality is theory.

You have more faith than any Christian I know.
604 posted on 06/23/2003 1:43:05 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.)
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