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"THE EDGE" is asking smart people, mostly professors, "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" Of course, all of the fun here is generated by the famously fallacious Euclidean model of knowledge, which insists that what we know must be the product of a procedure equivalent to a mathematical proof or a logical deduction. But this is just rot. Grand, wonderful journal filling rot, but rot never the less.

Here's my question for the Edgies: what would academic philosphers do -- what would they publish, what would they teach? -- without the unending stream of fly-bottle puzzles generated by "The Euclidean Mistake"? Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack