why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism
prozak at anus.com
prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 26 17:41:25 CST 2003
> >>> > > Anyone can call anything truth, but it does not make it so.
> >> >
> >> > According to what?
> >
> > According to logical assessment.
> >
> Your logical assessment¹ depends on a language, right?
No, it's expressed in a language; algorithms can be coded in many
languages.
> > They continue to preach that individual opinions are each correct,
> > regardless of their contradiction.
>
> Sure. Just like Bush.
Exactly. He's claiming that because the West is more "Democratic"
than Iraq, we have the right to own nuclear weapons, and they don't.
> >>> > > 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 truth concept¹ without criteria that are established in a system of
> >> > signification.
> >
> > This is linguistic confusion here:
> >
> Some universal argument you¹ve got there, linguistic confusion.¹ How,
> exactly, do you know that you are not affected by it yourself?
I'm not attributing linguistic confusion to either party; I'm saying
that the subtopic has been framed in confusion.
> > 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.
> >
> External to what?
External to the observer.
> > 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.
>
> You wrote: maybe it's wisest to stick with what we know, e.g. logical
> truth.¹ What do you mean by logical truth¹? Is that logic as in formal
> logic?
Philosophical logic - the term "formal logic" is often used to refer
to logical systems which function only within, to my mind, their own
narrow scope of definition.
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