in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.
i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).
but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.
No about the roundness of the earth, it's different than about an whole human being... There, it's exactly a question of perspective and projection.
From the ground, you see the earth flat... But it's round anyway... From the athmosphere, you see the earth bigger than the sun, but it isn't
Because at this moment you just stop at one of the properties of the earth, not at the whole earth!
in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.
i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).
but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
"A true thing is true"
Of course if you make the hypothesis that the thing is true, then it's true. A "true thing" is always true..
But the hard part is not so much to understand the question, but to don't forget to question the hypothesis : this thing that's called "true thing", it's really a "true thing" ?
And even it's not really the point of the talk. Your point is clearly that a true thing is true. My point is, yes, but it's never absolutely true. Your message explain very great by itself why it isn't and why it can't be!
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
If someone is talking about their height and claiming to be tall "absolutely," it could easily be proven "true" or "false" by looking at statistics
Statistics about what?
No, just someone claims "i'm tall absolutely", I laugh, because it's a non-sense!
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
This is the essence of critical thinking.
By the way, If truth was absolute, no need of critical thinking ;)
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
"Tall in relation to what?""
By definition of "absolute", this question is the proof that the truth is not absolute...
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
Name one thing presented as a "truth" that isn't binary.
"I'm tall"
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
" the truth as discussed in this case is binary"
I agree with that!
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
How is truth not absolute? Something is either true or false. There is no evidence for in between.
In binary system or manichean thoughts, or boolean logic, yes!
Hopefully, the world is more "fuzzy"
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
Truth is not absolute...
Binary truth is absolute...
But the world is not binary!
