Re: What's the Science of Dinosaurs?

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/01 9:13:50 PM EST, dalelemu@hotmail.com writes:

<< I think we're getting too close to Socrates here - i.e. the observation 
that we can't "know" anything, that i personally see as more of a play on the 
definition of the words "know" and "fact" (or at the most a comment on the 
usefulness of various definitions of those words) than as a truly useful 
philosophical realisation - maybe one of those situations where language 
makes philosophical problems appear from nowhere. >>

Is this Socrates, or is it Kant? I've done quite well ridding my memory of 
that stuff. As you imply in your post, debating such aspects of "knowing" and 
"factuality" is quite counterproductive and fruitless. Philosophers are among 
the world's greatest BS artists, and it's good to avoid their silly semantic 
pitfalls and snares. We all know that we exist, even if they seem not to.