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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:28 AM Original message |
Is it possible for any Truth to be Relatively ABSOLUTE? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Just a liiiiiiidddddddle too esoteric for a Saturday morning. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It's just logic. It's impossible to say " X is real BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS." without |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. It's not "logic", it's semantic flummery. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. If you say so. nt |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. So ...... might 2 + 2 not actually be 4? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. In the 3 dimensions in which I live, 2 + 2 = 4. Don't know about those 8 other dimensions. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. On second thought: Our Economy has given several examples in which 2+2 =/= 4 recently. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. This falls into my comment about tax accountants |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I think you meant "absolutely objective"? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. You got me on that. I was thinking as I wrote that that I haven't really |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. you might want to have a closer look at that. NT |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. ? |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The idea that nothing can be objectively truthful. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I didn't say that. I said that the claim alone does not make it so. |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. THAT is TRUE. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
6. No, because the Prosentential Theory of Truth is basically correct. |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
7. This is what bothers me about the MSM... |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
12. Yes, there is such a thing as absolute truth |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Agreed. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I don't like arguing words |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Agreed again: thus my reference to "By their fruits you shall KNOW them." |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. Depends. |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
17. My own philosophy: |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-20-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. For me, truth is something that can never be explained with words; whereby, someone else can get |
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