File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-12-23.023, message 180


Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 18:11:39 -0500
From: mbarrett-AT-uncc.campus.mci.net (Michael Barrett)
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.


I see the distinction you've made that i didn't

however, (maybe this what I was thinking, but not typing)
what do you do in the muddy case of personal belief systems when they are
regarded as truth in a wide enough context to be socially constructed, like
the scientific method for example?
what do you think?

-Michael

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