Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 4 Feb 2002 10:31:04 -0000 Issue 480

[ben nevile <bbn@xxxxxxxx>]

> but in science, one can prove that something is false.

since all of mathematics is built on a set of axioms, it seems to me
logically unassailable that even "proofs" of falsehood are only as good as
the axioms they rest upon.  as far as I know there is no self-contained
logical system that operates without such a set of basic assumptions, and
therefore this same external dependence.  but I haven't studied philosophy,
only analysis, so maybe I haven't been exposed to the necessary fruity
perspective to believe in some sort of absolute truth.  ;)

bbn