Re: Philosophy, Logic, Formal Systems
Reply #254 –
Since we still live in a civilized way, (I don't know for how long) have a drink...
Wine takes too long (and whiskey too short) a time, so I drink and go on, day after day.
Logic tells us what we should believe.
Experience confutes it, often as not.
Science is a method and a knot
to be untied, by the ancient sieve
of truth. So:
What do we hold to, and have to hold to?
What works! Silly as it seems, that's it;
what works allows us to nearly fit
reality, and our perceptions. You
would be hard pressed to find another
criterion that would do as well.
Of course, most wouldn't and few would tell
us anything, except what our mother
taught us: Milk is sweet; or sour. Knowing
which, we learn where we are going…
And Truth? Not that. No.