File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-12-23.023, message 174


Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:39:18 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: The truth about truth


>"Thus what one believes seems to be the
>truth until such time as one=EDs belief looses credability."
>
>this is a good point.
>-It is useful to think of truth in terms of consensus, and in terms of a
>statement of quality about a statement.

These are two different points. One concerns subjectivity the other
ideology. Though these are closely related one can not be collapsed into
the other.  Personal belief and socially constructed belief are different
and both are often impervious to the truth.  While Truth is  conditional
it claims are on objectivity--the it is attributed and constructed on what
is known about agiven subject at a given moment.




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