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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Brian Westley)
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Subject: Re: Rosen on reason, etc. (But Wait, There's More!)
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 10:11:01 EST
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In article <5332@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>...What I am assuming is that there are certain things which
>are not knowable. Why does the world exist? Why is Plank's constant
>*this* value and not *that* one? Why aren't there more stars? Why is
>there a force of gravity anyway? These are all examples of questions
>whose answers (ignoring direct revelation from God, say) are not knowable.
>There may be no reason for any of these. There may *be* a reason for all
>of these. But, whatever the answer is, it seems clear that we won't
>ever know it.
>
>Laura Creighton

'They' used to say "We will never know what the surface of the moon is
like" or "what the stars are made of" or "Man will never fly".
And sure enough, the people who said these things never did.
They never tried.

Merlyn Leroy
"...a dimension between stupidity and substance, between science and
superficiality, a place we call...The Usenet Zone"