[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> Let us not overlook, however, the inherent self-contradiction in the 
> notion that we can never know for sure about anything, including, one 
> presumes, that notion.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Why would you want to overlook it? Incompleteness is an aspect of any 
> symbolic system.

Including I presume the "incompleteness" of the "fact" that incompleteness is an
aspect of any symbolic system. (I prefer self-contradictory to incomplete because
it more dramatically reveals the weakness of logic on which we place so much faith
to ascertain "truth.") Be that as it may, it seems to me your view amounts
to: "In the end we know that we can know nothing, even though for practical 
purposes we fool ourselves into thinking we can." Am I wrong?    


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