[MD] Probability

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Gene M <boredandunstable at gmail.com>:


> I don't agree at all! Just because we can't Know anything for certain
> changes almost nothing. We build an image of reality in our minds based on
> how well our own ideas about reality fit in with how Reality actually works.
> That's what I've always thought was meant by "agreement with experience."
> The only difference I can see is that some believe that their view is Right,
> True, Correct, all those things. And others realize that their view of
> reality is provisional. I accept truths until they are shown to incorrect or
> lacking compared to Reality, and then modify them. What's so crazy about
> that?

Nothing, except you are certain in the knowledge that reality is provisional,
then turn around and say we can't know anything for certain. Apparently the
contradiction doesn't faze you. To each his own . . . :-)

Platt
 




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