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

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 26 15:59:20 CST 2003


> > Anyone can call anything truth, but it does not make it so.
> 
> According to what?

According to logical assessment.

> >>>>>>> > >>> > > Or, in social language, "Not for everyone"!
>>
> >>> > > 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.
> > 
> How so?

They continue to preach that individual opinions are each correct, 
regardless of their contradiction.

> >> > 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
> > 
> > So says one "point of view"; however, it also hopes to be "true."
> > Since it just vanished in the shambles of paradox,
> > 
> Quite an easy refutation, no? Perhaps you could explain how you can operate
> with a Œtruth concept¹ without criteria that are established in a system of
> signification.

This is linguistic confusion here: first, to assert that objective 
truth doesn't exist is to be fooled by language; language assesses 
truth, but descriptions are also true in the sense that they to the 
degree possible accurately portray eventiture in external reality. 2 
+ 2 = that's correct, an answer is needed. Second, to assert that 
subjectivism - all truth is within the individual - is anything more 
than dressed-up absolutism is error.

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