why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism
prozak at anus.com
prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 26 15:21:36 CST 2003
> > 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
> truth.¹ Truth¹ within religious discourses is not authorized¹ by the same
> procedures as truth¹ in scientific discourses.
Anyone can call anything truth, but it does not make it so.
> >>> > > 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 intimately 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.
Wrong.
> About your objective truth.¹ Truth¹ is dependent on criteria; criteria do
> not exist outside the systems of representation/signification in which they
> are established, and accordingly, neither does truth.¹
So says one "point of view"; however, it also hopes to be "true."
Since it just vanished in the shambles of paradox, maybe it's wisest
to stick with what we know, e.g. logical truth, of which scientific,
religious and social truths are a subset, unless of course the
perceiver is insane.
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