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From: mps@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael P. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Scientific Epistemology
Message-ID: <9871@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 23:08:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: duke.9871
Posted: Fri Jul  3 23:08:24 1987
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Reply-To: mps@duke.UUCP (Michael P. Smith)
Organization: Duke University, Durham NC
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Summary: I know what I'm talking about


In article <108@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
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>The definitions I'm using are the ones I learned when I minored in philosophy,

Imagine a discussion on computer science with the summary line "I know
what I'm talking about" and the reason given was that "I minored in
computer science."  Remember, computer science is maybe fifty years
old, whereas brilliant people have contributed to the questions Mr.
Raymond is snapping off the answers to for 2,000 years.  Some of them
would have agreed with Mr. Raymond, most of them would not.  But none
of them would have taken the sophmoric know-it-all tone exhibited in
this article.

>it's now a century after Kant and the synthetic a priori is quite dead,
Immanuel Kant: 1724 - 1804.

(OK, this is a cheap shot.  But you did claim to speak from authority.)

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and then they shine more bright."     R. Descartes

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