Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-09]: It looks that Strabo was right after all: Piraeus was an island many years ago and was connected again with Athens via the soil that the Cephissus river brought [source: web news]. A knowledge that was forgotten and now is discovered again. What does “forget” actually mean? Piraeus was “not an island” before we make that discovery. Now it is a former “island"… Are the properties of things dependent on what we “know” ? Or is there an objective set of “properties” somewhere?(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
