GRGR(29): Roger's mission

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Jun 13 15:15:58 CDT 2000


Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Terrance wrote:
> >
> > Who are the pragmatic philosophers here?
> 
> Isn't Pirates's explanation that delusions are always officially
> defined and we don't have to worry about questions of real or unreal
> analogous to truth being relative to changeable needs. Truth and delusion
> are convention based.

Yes, so the pragmatic philosophers are members of the We and
They Systems. 


> 
> My question: If it is absolutely true that there is no absolute truth, is
> it only another official delusion that there are only official
> (arbitrary) delusions?
> 
>                                 P.
> 

Well this is certainly the suspicion of some of the more
"positively" paranoid narrators and characters (i.e. Enzian)
in GR.



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