laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) (07/20/87)
>In article <651@sri-arpa.ARPA> gould!proxftl!bill@seismo.CSS.GOV writes: > >First, philosophy: the essential parts of philosophy are metaphysics and >epistemology; they answer the questions of "what kind of universe do I live >in?" and "How do I know?", respectively. The answers to these questions >determine the other answers that a philosophy gives to the questions usually >associated with philosophy. In particular, these answers allow one to >distinguish between a potentially valid description of reality and a mere >statement about facts of reality. The former is a theory; the latter is a >model. I think that this gives philosophy too short an end of the stick. My current thought project is dividing human persuits into a quest for answers of the three questions ``What is Beauty'' ``What is Truth'' and ``What is Goodness''. ``What kind of universe do I live in and how do I know'' is fundamental to the Truth question, but does not (or at least not trivially) relate to the Goodness and Truth questions. -- (C) Copyright 1987 Laura Creighton - you may redistribute only if your recipients may. ``One must pay dearly for immortality: one has to die several times while alive.'' -- Nietzsche Laura Creighton ihnp4!hoptoad!laura utzoo!hoptoad!laura sun!hoptoad!laura