Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:43:29 02/18/99
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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." > Interesting. I did read Kierkegars once, but it was his only novel, a weird piece of literature and analysis called "The Jorunal of a Seductor". >I go more for the notion that truth is absolute, even though we form a local >approximation. I understand yopur platonic point, but I tend to think that as much truth has to do with our representation of reality and this last one is a changing thing, the only absolute truth could be that there is not such a thing like an absolute truth. We have local and not eternal regularities even in that aparent realm of absolute law that is astrophisics. galazies change, stars changes, particles changes and becomes another things. as Heraclitos sad, All flows. Of course all that is valid -valid?- just in the realm of fenomena. Maybe this last real is just the shadow of a kind of platonic imperturbable order, invaruiant las, the thinking of God or whatever. I do not know, but in any case the precarity of human thought is clear and convincing. 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. Great. Cheers Fernando
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