Do you not believe in the existence of absolute truths

One can believe that absolute truths exist without believing that it is possible to know them (or at least to know that one knows them, which pragmatically is the same deal).

One can also believe that absolute truth doesn't matter. What matters is predictive power. An epistemology that focuses on predictive power usually operates with a finite probability that any given theory is wrong. That probability can, of course, get exceedingly small - for instance, the probability that the Maxwell equations are fundamentally flawed is so minuscule that for most practical purposes it can be ignored.

But really, let's set aside the epistemology for another day. This thread is already more than 200 posts long, and epistemology has a way of adding a hundred and fifty posts to every thread it comes up in :-P

- Jake

640 kiloton should be enough for anybody