"Aramis's" "criterias" (fwd)

Miracle (miracle@procyon.com)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 23:22:22 -0600 (CST)

RJV 2/18
Well, I took on the rather painful task of upgrading my fathers computer
to WinBlowz 95 today. Yes, the plug and pray still isn't working. (On
top of the fact that the hardware is 3 years old and has no drivers and
was among the first plug and pray devices...)I have to be tech support
again tomorrow, so, I don't really have much time to respond to this, but
I think Michael has pulled two good examples.

-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com

"It's hard to be religious when certain people
are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
[Calvin, "Calvin and Hobes" strip by Bill Waterson

>From Michael's posting, 2/18

ARAMIS, from another post, to Jason this time;
I don't believe we have talked before, so I will ask you this now: will
you provide us with an objective, inductive historical criteria and a
baseline using two documents from the same period that you believe to be
reliable documents, and two events from the same period that you believe
to be accurately reported.

MWF
First, the documents and the events:

GALLIC WAR, Julius Caesar; that same war

CIVIL WARS, Appian; the Roman civil wars

The greater problem is trying to decide just what Aramis means
by "an" objective etc., but here are a couple of guide lines;

1.) Physically possible.

2.) Congruent with other information available

That will do for starters.

ARAMIS;
The only guidelines for the criteria I insist on are:

1) The criteria must be able to be met. For instance, demanding an
analytic proof for a synthetic statement is a criterion that is
impossible to meet. This will not do.

MWF
Well, so far so good.

ARAMIS;
2) The conclusions of the criteria cannot conflict with known fact. If
the test shows other historical events to be false, that we already
know to be true, we must reject that test.

MWF
Still in there.

ARAMIS;
3) The criteria must be objective.

MWF
Looking good.

ARAMIS;
4) The criteria must be used in historical research, and shown to be a
reliable way of determining history.

MWF
Well, all of my chosen events, sources, and tests seem to pass.

Your ball now.

Ciao.

-- 
	Michael Fisher, ET1/SS USN ret., law student	


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