why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism

[thomas kyhn rovsing hjoernet]

On 26/02/03 21:00, "prozak at anus.com" <prozak at anus.com> wrote:

> 
>>>>> > >> > isn't the notion of truth intimately connected to the notion of
faith?
>>> > > 
>>> > > No.
>> > 
>> > ŒNo¹? 
> 
> (I want to just leave "Yes." here but that's mean.)
> 
> No - provability is a different concept from faith, which does not
> rely on a series of causal demonstrations or structured conjectures.
> 
It appears you overlook the fact that there are different concepts of
Œtruth.¹ ŒTruth¹ within religious discourses is not Œauthorized¹ by the same
procedures as Œtruth¹ in scientific discourses.
> 
>>> > > Or, in social language, "Not for everyone"!
>> > 
>> > What do you mean by that? The fact that religious notions of truth do not
>> > hold up as ³true² when regarded from a non-religious point of view does not
>> > mean that the notion of truth is not Œintimately connected to the notion of
>> > faith.¹
> 
> Nope, was just pointing out social conditioning to assume there is no
> form of objective truth,
> 
Doesn¹t look like people with political power underwent your social
conditioning.  
> 
About your Œobjective truth.¹ ŒTruth¹ is dependent on criteria; criteria do
not exist outside the systems of representation/signification in which they
are established, and accordingly, neither does Œtruth.¹
> 
> thus we all have equally valid opinions
> (unless a taboo line is breached; a fundamental paradox of that
> viewpoint).


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