File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2003/bhaskar.0312, message 171


Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:32:40 +0000
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere7.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Structures are not things that are true or false,even if  Hegelian Marxists say so


>it is wrong
>to speak of one as having more reality than the other.

Who's doing this?

Mervyn

In message <3FDA0D5D.28FDD38D-AT-ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> 
writes
>
>
>"Moodey, Richard W" wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marsh,
>>
>> I don't know about Gunter, but one criterion I use is that water, but 
>>not mirages, satisfy my thirst.  Actually, I should say that this is a 
>>criterion that I would use if the issue were to come up in my life -- 
>>I've never really seen a convincing mirage.  (and I can't afford the 
>>plane ticket to take Gunter's tour)
>>
>
>That is to say, the differing reality of mirage and water is contingent
>on human need/desire. Independent of human need, it is not only wrong to
>speak of truth or falsity in reference to mirage or water, it is wrong
>to speak of one as having more reality than the other. They both simply
>_are_. To say that a mirage is less real (or less true) than water is
>the same as to say that a cockroach is less real than a Granny Smith
>apple.
>
>Carrol
>
>
>
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