Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 12:21:26 02/19/99
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On February 18, 1999 at 19:17:48, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 18, 1999 at 19:07:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >[snip] >> Funny enough, in fact I am not a man of too strong convictions about almost >>nothing. I tend to be convinced by the last elegant, intelligent argument it >>happens I lesson. And I am very good at seeing the other side and so to become >>somewhat doubtfoul of my own ideas of yesterday. So my only one conviction is; >>truth is multifaceted thing and our truth is ever local and parcial, if sometime >>that is enough for our purposes. >Hmmm... Sounds a lot like Kierkegaard, "Truth is man's approximation of thought >to reality." > >I go more for the notion that truth is absolute, even though we form a local >approximation. Sort of like Plato's notion of the concept underlying the >physical implementation. (Best arguer I ever saw, but king of the faulty >dilemma). > >Anyway, I like you personally, and maybe I will pop in and out of the >discussion. Hello Dann, I felt that *I* had to pop in this discussion as it touches upon some issues I dwell on in my University courses :)) -- if you postulate some sort of absolute truth, then you have to postulate an absolute being as well. Since that absolute being is such on the basis of being singular, then it can safely be inferred that no one else can have any idea about one, single, immutable truth. So simple. Actually, I tend to go along with Fernando and, perhaps, even go a step further: I claim that truth is actually a negative value in terms of human cognition and human progress. Because, if you keep on thinking that you have reached the last stone in your everlasting quest, you won't find other stones which do exist, only a little beyond. If you have time, find Paul Feyerabend's book *Against Method* and read it, please. Warm regards, Djordje
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