Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:26:26 +0100
From: Kent Lofgren <Kent.Lofgren-AT-pedag.umu.se>
Subject: concepts and notions



>tolerating you. Very simple things: shelter, food, bullets, a speeding '72
>Oldsmobile slamming into your unsuspecting body, blah blah blah, have a way

Hi!
The discussion about "truth" is open and never-ending. Not so much because
it's about truth per se, but because it is (The emphasis is on the word
"is") possible to discuss it. People will always find pleasure in debating
with each other. Truth is a classic thing to discuss.

The whole idea with challenging truth as a define-able/measure-able
phenomenen has it's benefits. It makes us think and discuss more. I argue
that Baud. refusal to accept truth as an objekt by itself, since it does
not exist, is his contribution to the debate.

My opinion is that truth has no meaning unless you relate it to a
phenomenon or an abstract idea and that you must ask people about their
concepts and notions about the phenomenon/idea, in order to find its social
meaning.

Kent Lofgren
Grad.stud.

Dept. of Education
S-901 87 Umea University
SWEDEN
Phone: Int.+(0)90 786 64 32