990113 0002 - Opinion poll B XVI Results after 1 day

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Von: Robert Binkley <rbinkley@julian.uwo.ca>
An: Multiple recipients of list <kant-l@bucknell.edu>
Betreff: Re: Opinion poll B XVI: Results after 1 day
Datum: Mittwoch, 13. Januar 1999 00:11

I'm suprised at so many answers since I have trouble seeing the difference
between the options. Surely for us to have knowledge our knowledge, that is
the beliefs which make up our knowledge, and the objects these beliefs are
about must be in conformity with each other.
To ask which must conform to which is like asking whether in a marriage
the wife must be married to the husband or the husband married to the wife.
And if the question is whether in acquiring knowledge we one of produce
the conformity by changing our beliefs or changing the objects, then surely
it is a matter of changing beliefs since we are powerless to change the
objects. (Think of someone trying to change the orbits of the planets to
bring them into conformity with his mistaken astronomical beliefs. IF he
could do it, his beliefs would become true, but ...)

Bob Binkley

>OPTIONS (reminder)
>===============
>
>A) "alle unsere Erkenntnis muss sich nach den Gegenständen richten"
> (all our knowledge must conform to objects)
>
>B) "die Gegenstände müssen sich nach unserem Erkenntnis richten"
> (the objects must conform to our knowledge)
>
>
>RESULTS at 12:00 (GMT + 1) of Jan. 12, 1999:
>==================================
>
>1) dominant paradigm is A = 6
>2) dominant paradigm is B = 2
>3) questioning the question = 3
>
>
>COMMENTS:
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>Marco Bettoni
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