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To: aruanan
No, Nietzsche was wrong. There ARE facts. Often we don't know what they are, but the facts exist nonetheless. If facts don't exist, then nothing exists.
74 posted on 10/18/2003 9:23:56 AM PDT by gitmo (Hypocrite: Someone who dare aspire to a higher standard than he is living.)
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To: gitmo
No, Nietzsche was wrong. There ARE facts. Often we don't know what they are, but the facts exist nonetheless. If facts don't exist, then nothing exists.

see my post #75

79 posted on 10/18/2003 9:49:07 AM PDT by fqued (The mainstream media wouldn't over-rate anyone, would they?)
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To: gitmo
No, Nietzsche was wrong. There ARE facts. Often we don't know what they are, but the facts exist nonetheless. If facts don't exist, then nothing exists.

As I said earlier, one can posit with reasonable certainty that there are "things" that have an existence and that they exist independently of our perceptions of them. However, "fact" is itself a concept, a mental construct, that is used to describe certain categories of experience or intellectual operations. Also, look at your last sentence for a good joke.
88 posted on 10/18/2003 1:06:37 PM PDT by aruanan
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