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Old 09-29-2004, 01:20 PM   #22
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But you're using a limited definition of fact which limits it to anything that is within human knowledge (knowledge itself being a very sticky term). And that's a completely acceptable definition of fact; except that FoL was using 'fact' as a subset of 'truth'-- a fact is anything that is true. So ignore the word 'fact' for a moment. Now, do you think that truth is limited to the realm of human knowledge, or can truths exist independent of humanity?

I find so much of epistemology to be obsessed with word games, playing with the definition of 'sound', for example, to try and provoke interesting results.
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