From: DRAGONFLY           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Relig & Logic 2
Date & Time: 05/20/91 13:41:47
Message Number 16929

   Some religions, including Christian Science, disbelieve in pain.
Some of their members would NOT agree that they perceived pain when
you threw the brick at them.  (Fortunately, I'm not one of them.)
Going on to mathematics, Hamiltonian algebra does NOT agree that 
1 + 2 = 2 + 1.  Only a "shared world view" comprised of assumptions
jointly made by two (or more) people makes it possible to communicate.
     
   If something is not repeatable, does that make it ficticious?
If something isn't verifiable, does that make it ficticious?  I doubt
both of those questions.  (But I also very strongly doubt anyone who
uses those questions as a lazy way out to explain a phenomenon.)
    
   To tie in with the conversation I'm having with Chaz, the belieft
that the universe is real is an extremely useful proposition.  But not
everyone shares it.
                        //Dragonfly//