Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!nessus From: nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Is Doug's chair really red? Message-ID: <8912132324.AA08619@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Dec 89 23:24:03 GMT References: <8912111632.AA00420@GAFFA.MIT.EDU> Sender: nessus@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Doug Alan Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu > [John Rossi:] Although this is semantically similar to his > postulation that agreement on quality of subjective experience also > constitutes "truth", it is, indeed, quite different. I was not attempting to definie "truth" or "fact" -- I was pointing out the *actual* phenomenon people seem to refer to when they use the words "truth" and "fact". In actuality, there is no truth and there are no facts. > As for the days of the uncivilized flaming in this group. I think that > commentary here was more interesting when it included obnoxious > remarks by the likes of Wicinski and Hofmann. Yeah, it was. Too bad the bozos left. > Has it really been almost 4 years? More than that! Good to have you back, John. |>oug "P is for PRUE trampled flat in a brawl"