Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 20:02:45 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: After Theories of Truth


Lithoi-AT-aol.com wrote:

>Apparition, bluff, chicanery, deception, delusion, dissembling,
>dissimulation, duplicity, falsification, feigning, guile, hallucination,
>idol, illusion, impersonation, imposture, legerdemain, misrepresentation,
>pretence, pretending, representation, seeming, semblance, simulacrum,
>simulating, simulation, trickery, wile, and will-o'-the-wisp. All of this and
>more. It just isn't relevant that 'Snow is white' is true in L just when snow
>is white. How could anyone thing that this is any part of what Foucault was
>talking about. It is truth in brackets, as produced, as a way to do things
>with words. True is what is satisfied by all sequences when you're dealing
>with boring things. The things are the things in the sequences when you're
>dealing with cool stuff over which there are wars and fights and tossed
>fingers. Duh.... Lithoi

Heavy, man.

Doug