[MD] Heads or tails?

[ian glendinning]

Krimel
Am I are chiming in here to support the adoption of baseless claims ?
Whaddya think ? No, of course not, but a metaphysical "base" can never
be very firm or entirely provable / falsifiable itself. Every
metaphysics has a hole in it - I used to say - just some have bigger
holes than others.

There is a big pragmatic space (an excluded middle) between something
based in objective falsifiable logic, and something which is "a
literary exercise ... just a bunch of ideas [that] do not need to have
any contact with the world of experience ... require no criteria for
assessing them"

As a pragmatist, a metaphysical base is as good as the world model it
can support. It's as solid and the structures erected on top of it,
and no more. Causation is not a simple one-way affair.

Ian
On 5/8/07, Krimel <Krimel at krimel.com> wrote:
> [Ian said:]
> Krimel, Platt, Ham,