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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 12:57:38 +1000
From: Gary Maclennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: It's a gift to be ... was Re: BHA: objective idealism cont.


I agree with Mervyn here.   Except I would also have a parting shot at the 
notion of a "fancy word".  The thought behind Alethia is is a serious one. 
As for the word I have Greek students who don't think the word fancy at 
all. They like it because for them it speaks of the continuing influence of 
Greek thought.  But we have debated all that about Bhaskar's language out 
before.

So Alethia is the reason for things and the ultimate reason is of course 
god.    All that is quite simple actually, but then as the Shakers were 
fond of saying "It is a gift to be simple."

regards

Gary





At 23:57 6/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Ruth Groff <rgroff-AT-yorku.ca> writes
> >What is the relationship between this ultimate transcendent reality
> >(spirit/God) and alethic truth?  Are they different names for the same
> >phenomenon?  Or is "alethic truth" now being used in a purely formal way, as
> >fancy wording for the concept of essence?
>I would say that alethic truth (and morality) is *now* (ultimately!)
>spirit or God. Pre-FEW it was ontological truth in the manner previously
>discussed (where a mechanism is the truth of that which it generates),
>ultimately whatever are the ultimata for science/philosophy at any one
>stage of inquiry/human history. There is no necessary contradiction
>between the two conceptions of course...
>
>Mervyn
>
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