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Yes. Without testing, just assertions. Facts are harder to come by depending on the topic. My Sorbonne-graduate logic teacher (notice that I am attempting to credit him with authority :-)), taught us that logic was not a means to establish fact: it was a system to determine that given a premise, one could truthfully reason. He said it better than that but I have been out of school too long. Unlike the postmodernists, I don't believe that all things are relative and have only interior truth. A fall from a tall building will still kill one with a pretty reasonable certainty. What I do believe is that what one thinks about on the way down is quite relative and quite interior and that a brief discussion with anyone during the fall will produce documents open to interpretation but few reliable facts. On the other hand, the conversation makes for thrilling literature capable of producing effects. len From: Arjun Ray [mailto:aray@n...] "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: | There is something to be said for the position that all we get | back from topic maps or the semantic web is opinions. Hearsay would be more accurate, I think.
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