[Dragaera] agnosticism (no flame) (was, long ago: (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons])

[Alain Feeny]

On 22-May-07, at 2:25 PM, Maximilian Wilson wrote:

> The implicit belief is that things can be assumed to not exist until
> evidence for them appears. (H. P. Lovecraft might have had fun with  
> that
> idea.) This is not intrinsically more rational than the opposite  
> position,
> or any one in between.
>
Actually that argument is more representative of Empirisism then  
rationalism.  Rationalism implies the ability to sort things out with  
little supporting evidence, like Sherlock Holmes, using deduction to  
"fill in the blanks".

> -Max
>
> -- 
> Be pretty if you are, be witty if you can,
> But be cheerful if it kills you.
>
> Everything in Windows is very simple, but the simplest thing is  
> difficult.
>     -Clausewitz
> _______________________________________________
> Dragaera mailing list
> Dragaera at dragaera.info
> http://lists.dragaera.info/listinfo.cgi/dragaera-dragaera.info