why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism
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vze422fs at verizon.net
Thu Feb 27 00:10:17 CST 2003
on 2/26/03 4:59 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:
>
>>> Anyone can call anything truth, but it does not make it so.
> They continue to preach that individual opinions are each correct,
> regardless of their contradiction.
>
>>>>> 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,
>>>
>> 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: 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.
Yo, open-minded guy. First, you preach like some kind of intellectual
unitarian. Then, you invalidate everyone else's opinion.
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