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OK I understand your evaluation of this and mine is that there are things that may be known a” priori” that can be deduced from His statements, now understand they are personal and only mine. You might know that either of our views might be considered heresy, since neither of them contemplate a...

Well know you got me all mixed up. How can you believe in heaven and hell and assume from what Jesus said that he does not, where did you get your notion that a heaven and a hell exists from then, even if you consider hell as something many do not? You can assume not for two reasons Los...

The evidence is that, that is exactly the interpretation of the message passed down through the centuries. Catholic doctrine interpreted those words to mean that the thief who understood what ought to be went to paradise and the bad thief who did not understand what ought to be, did not. His...

What do you think he had in mind for what he did not speak, did he need any words? The message has endured 20 centuries, believe or not humans have followed it. As I have said before interpretations of words do not express meanings of anything more than what you think you know and that is an...

Then what did He mean when He spoke to the two thieves hanging on the cross next to him on his right and left? Is there another interpretation that mabybe I have missed?

What are you referring to as mind the imput data or the output data? The brain scans the invironment continuously and makes changes to the internal memory. Here is an interesting paper: http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~richardson/docs/SpiveyRichardsonFitneva.pdf

Hola MF Well yes very much entertaining, I will agree with you on that. I do not expect you to go in circles; I would have hoped that you might understand the meanings to my words. I think I know why this is your meaning, you believe that what you think you know is an emergent property (ie...

Some forms of accord is convention? OK math is the most conventional. Well let’s do it this way, first. “Absolute truth” is a complete set A of all knowledge. What is known “truth” is a subset B of this complete set of all knowledge. Within the subset of B “known truths” are contained the sets...

Why clip and paste only part of my post, it only confuses anyone who is reading this thread. I told you before that meanings, that we give to words are only useful when they are examined in the context of every word that is used to try and explain anything. The answer to your pixies in your...

No just being colorful did not want to rattle your jeans. Let’s try and make some progress to understand each other I have come to believe that absolute concepts would have to entail “the facts”. Although we can not know what absolute actually is we can have an idea by knowing that what we...

MF, that has been my main point of interpretation of this whole thread. We think in models and interpret other models through our own models of interpretation of the facts. Thus no one really understands each other, only sometimes we say that we think we do and in this case we do not. The...

Facts are not absolute truths. They are true propositions that can be falsified. Which means that they would have a truth value relative to what is known and when it is known. Yes the Earth is not flat to one who would know it is a sphere.

Has anyone ever had the experience of reading in 3D. What I mean is, while your reading, all the letters on the page can be focused in on like a necker cube. The letters have depth like you see sometimes on the big movie theatre. Its possible to look around the sides of the letters as if they...

I would hope that my expnation below helps. Although we can go to a dictionary and learn words, its not basically done that way we learn through experience the use and meaning of the words and there use and meaning in this case is nothing but simple, due to the fact that our models of...

As long as time figures in our equations epistemological facts are mutable. You stick to your gun that facts are true propositions. I agree only if we determine in our models that they are. Although facts can be true propositions they can also be proven to be false. Our difference of opinion...