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Thursday, June 09, 2005

Confirmation

Knowledge cannot contradict the truth. We may be better off, like Oedipus, not knowing certain things, but knowledge can only confirm what is real. It cannot lead to a new truth, only to a better understanding of the one that has been there all along.
Posted by Nature's Rebel at 10:20 PM

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