Re: What's the Science of Dinosaurs?

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:36:42  
 Dinogeorge wrote:
>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.

I was also thinking Kant (maybe in his Critique of Pure Reason).  One of the 
listmembers from the University of Chicago should know.  They love Kant up 
there.

Steve

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