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To: D-fendr
I understand your words, but I'm not certain I get your view, I'm afraid I may be going off on something you're not saying

You are reading too much into it.

Are you arguing something similar to solipsism?

No, never.

I'm really not clear here, it seems you arguing we can't know whether anything is true?

I don't think I ever suggested that. Rather, what I said was that while we know some things, we don't know everything.

1,436 posted on 02/16/2011 8:55:59 AM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit....give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- pagan prayer)
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To: kosta50
while we know some things, we don't know everything.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm still working on understanding what you're saying about "knowing." In your previous:

we don't know everything, and therefore can not know what truth is.

I don't think it's semantics to say to know something is to know that it is true. So, I can't reconcile the two: we can know something/we can not know what truth is.

Am I jumbling your meaning here? Would it be correct to restate your position as: We can know some things are true, but not all of what is true?

1,446 posted on 02/16/2011 1:40:40 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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