pynchon agnostic? II

Sun Mar 2 15:59:21 CST 2003

On 02/03/03 22:23, "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

>> > on 2/3/03 9:18 PM, thomas kyhn rovsing hjoernet at tkrh at worldonline.dk
>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > In order to operate with this truth,¹ you depend on concepts such as
>> > physical,¹ bullet,¹ hole,¹ chest,¹ not to mention truth.¹
> 
> Well, I think we are on pretty solid ground with those four terms, unless
> you want to contest the existence of matter.
> 
Without contesting or affirming the existence of matter, those four terms
are established and defined in langauge; whatever is outside of language is
not in itself divided into distinct entities.

> Of course, "truth", as a
> philosophical abstraction, is completely subjective, is in a totally
> different "category", and thus earns the inverted commas I gave it.
> 
> And it's actually lexical items, and grammar -- notions like "to be", and
> verb tenses -- which are most slippery as you move from language to
> language.
> 
> best
> 
> 

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