On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:37:25 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Am 29.08.2012 09:56, schrieb Invisible:
>> On 28/08/2012 06:59 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Again, you're making an assumption based on limited experience.
>>
>> Well, here's the thing: It is not possible to experience everything
>> that exists in the entire world. Hence, /everybody/ has to make
>> generalisations based on the limited data available to them. Following
>> your chain of logic, you're basically saying that nobody can ever know
>> anything about anything. :-P
> 
> And he'd be right with that statement :-P (Well, maybe except such
> basics as "I think, therefore I am")
> 
> The difference is whether someone expresses their assumptions as
> irrefutable facts or as personal assumptions, and whether they take into
> account other people's experience in those assumptions.

Well said. :)

Jim

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