FW: Constraints on PERCEPTION ...

[Bill Shear]

Hi, Robin--

Because of the peculiar way the reply line is structured on Taxacom, I
think your reply went only to me, and not to the list in general.  You
might want to repost.

Not to drag it out, but I deny that reality is "unknowable."  This is a
vestige of Platonism we need to discard.  Reality is what's out there and
what stimulates our senses.  We haven't a whit of evidence that there is an
"unknowable" other reality.  All science is based on the confidence that we
can study the universe and deduce its laws.  In order to do so we must
explore continually and not despair that reality is "unknowable."  To do so
is to play into the hands of the priests.

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
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FAX (804)223-6374
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