Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/13/06 11:10 AM To Jon_Lincicum at stream.com cc "'Dragaera (E-mail)'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: Loraan, souls, and the Paths of the Dead >On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > >> Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> >> >> >On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >> > >> >> In Orca, we learn that [...] >> > >> >Well, we're told it. Remember, "The British government has learned ..." >> >> [...] >> To the left, however, learning something that is false is still learning. >> Or is it? > >See my second example, from the "16 words". Typical English restricts >learning to true things, where "true" probably means something like >"best available knowledge". Is this statement by Kiera in /Orca/ about Verra's foresight not our "best available knowledge" of the subject? Majikjon -Missing the reference to "16 words", and it sounds like interesting reading.