humanities.philosophy.objectivism

In article <507c4669-9fcc-41bf-9571-99cdc3661422
@z38g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, davids@webmaster.com says...
> On Mar 28, 4:35 pm, Gordon Sollars wrote:
>
> > Is it a tenet of Objectivism that things that don't exist can be
> > "integrated"? There are no indivisible atoms.
>
> Then perhaps there is no Sun, and hence the Sun has no size
> independent of consciousness. I would submit that our unitizing of
> some portion of the Universe into the notion of a "Sun" probably
> contains errors comparable to the errors in the Greek's conception of
> indivisible atoms.

That is where an insistence on certainty gets you. For me, and
fortunately for science, all that knowledge requires is tested
unfalsified conjectures. Am I *certain* that the Sun is larger than the
Earth? Of course not. Do I *know* that the Sun is larger? Of course.

--
Gordon