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|    David Mitchell to lorz    |
|    Re: WHY I INVESTIGATE OBE    |
|    15 Feb 05 17:55:27    |
      From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk              On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:18:03 -0500, lorz wrote:              > David Mitchell wrote:       >> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:35:33 -0500, lorz wrote:       > OPMMV?              Other People's Mileage May Vary. (Normally YMMV)              >> More to the point, at some time it will - a claim that a more "subjective"       >> approach will never be able to make with any authority.       >>       >       > At same time it will -- for that time being maybe?              Well, no, because it's not that kind of knowledge. It's not amenable to       either verification or correction.              > In science we often       > see theories and such updated, so to speak.              Oh, that's the best bit about the scientific method, it constantly       approaches the truth.              >       > I agree subjectiveness won't ever be the authority *but* it may help to       > understand and perhaps eliminate possibilities. I'm just saying it's a       > useful tool as well.              MMV              :-)              --       =======================================================================       = David --- If you use Microsoft products, you will, inevitably, get       = Mitchell --- viruses, so please don't add me to your address book.       =======================================================================              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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