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To: Hank Kerchief
I know this is how it seems to you and others ...

Not how it seems, Hank, how it is. That YOU cannot see it is, to me, the issue.

105 posted on 09/29/2003 7:42:04 AM PDT by Phaedrus
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To: Phaedrus; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; unspun; bigcat00
That YOU cannot see it is, to me, the issue.

Oh,I'm sure that's not true. What I see or don't see is of no importance at all to you, or should not be. It is what you see that should matter to you.

The bottom line is this. There are two abstract views of knowledge regarding what is significant and what is not. My view may very simply be stated:

What cannot be known cannot matter.

Now notice, I did not say what is not known, but what cannot be known.

Most people really believe the opposite. It is always interesting to have people who disagree with my view attempt to provide examples of what cannot be known which are, nevertheless, important. Of course, if something cannot be known, it certainly cannot be provided as an example, because it would not be known.

Hank

106 posted on 09/29/2003 8:10:03 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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