Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:

> On 08/08/2012 at 23:40, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
>
> > but a quick question: are you an 'intuitionist' about proofs?
>
> As far as I can imagine what it means, I believe answer is "no".
> I am rather relativist. I believe that what is proof for one person, may not 
> be proof for another one.
>
> World is too complicated for one person to understand it all. Therefore we 
> must take shortcuts and put faith in some other people. We must believe that 
> when someone says "something was proven", and scientific community does agree, 
> then it was independently checked by people capable of understanding that. 
> Most people would say "it is truth, it has been proven". I would say 
> "I believe that scientists did their job right. I believe that »something« is 
> true. I, personally, can not prove that. Therefore, I do not »know« - I 
> »believe«".
>
> [ -- some text deleted -- ]

ok, got it.

strange about you relativists: your assertions of _belief_ often sound 
like expressions of _doubt_!

> For interested readers, I would recommend (all available for English readers, 
> with many translations to national languages):
> - Alan Chalmers, What Is This Thing Called Science?
> - Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
> - Paul Feyerabend, Against method
> [ --- text deleted --- ]

I think a more contemporary thinker roughly along these lines is Bas 
van Fraasen but I'm not up on my phil of science reading; might be 
worth a peek though.

thank you for the ideas!

F.

 >
> I have ordered them by difficulty level. The first one should be understandable 
> even for people without any methodological background.
> --
> Best regards
> Mirosław Zalewski
>
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Felmon Davis

The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us 
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