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Old Jan 15th, 2004, 05:13 PM       
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Originally Posted by kellychaos
In the case of synthetic truth, I was talking about objectively agreed upon empirical reality, the laws that govern such reality and fact that such reality is proven time and again by repitition and the laws of probability. If this isn't part of the some philosopher's ideal vision of reality, it's good enough for me until something better comes around. I guess I'm a bit of a pragmaticist in the way that, since the absence of a supernatural "reality" hasn't seemed to have lost me any points, I'll get along just fine without it.
OAO doesn't deal in "practicality." He might lose some of his grandiose sense of self-importance if he had to lower himself to the herd mentality of "usefulness."
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