Fiction vs History?

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>on 26/10/04 2:02 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:
>
> > No matter how many times you say it you cannot reduce the cosmos to 
>text.
>
>That is precisely what all those positivist historians in Europe said 
>theywere doing back in the nineteenth century ("simply to show how it 
>really was" was their mantra).
>
>The cosmos is indeed a text which we read. Different people read it 
>differently.

Just because the human psyche needs structure (in your terms"text") in order 
to process/understand/relate to the cosmos does not convert the cosmos into 
that structure.  All humans could evaporate but the cosmos will still exist. 
  And just because different people read this cosmos differently does not 
mean their readings are equally valid.

Ghetta

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