Pragmatism and truth

[T_Clark]

I have been working on a follow up thread to this one. Your question inspired me to finish and post it.

How knowledge works

This is a follow up to the “Pragmatism and truth” thread. This way of seeing things is based on work as an environmental engineer and, as always, introspection. As with most engineering, the focus is on pragmatic and concrete problem solutions. I’ve stolen parts of this from posts I made on the previous forum incarnation. In my work, I cleaned up properties contaminated with chemicals discharged to soil, water, and sediment primarily by industrial processes. Typical steps in that process, gener…