RE: Knowledge is manufactured?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gause_Brian -at- emc -dot- com wrote: 
 
> Knowledge is where "perception" meets "reason". The act of 
> saying you exist proves that you exist. It's really that simple. 
> 
> If you want to believe that you can't prove things exist, and 
> specifically, that knowledge doesn't exist, you're welcome to 
> believe it...but you're handicapping your rational faculties 
> before you even begin.

Bravo, bravo, bravo! 

I'm reminded of Nathaniel Branden's dismissal of determinism
(paraphrased, but close): 

"If a man tells me either (a) he doesn't think, or (b) it doesn't matter
whether he thinks or not, I'm inclined to take his word for it." 

:-) 

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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