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   From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <1142624666.246139.88850@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
   Joseph H  writes   
      
   >Ah, I see. Once again I begin a thread with a fairly ineresting   
   >premise: that human beings use belief as a surrogate for knowledge. And   
   >again the anoraks take over with a riveting discussion about Brownian   
   >motion and the end of the Cartesian mind-body split.   
      
   Anorak? Moi?   
      
   > Fascinating, I'm   
   >sure- but not really addressing my central proposition which is that   
   >belief has served its time and its purpose and that it's time we moved   
   >onto knowledge as the source and the basis of our meaning.   
      
   Joseph, we all think that. That's why we're humanists.   
      
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   ralph   
      
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