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 -O^O- - --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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