From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:49:34 EST
Subject: Many Facts Grow Old]



Over two millennia ago, the sophists, too, disputed that there could be any 
such thing as truth. Plato and Aristotle struggled mightily with them. That is 
not just of historical, scholarly interest, but says something about the 
question of being and the truth of being to us today as well.

Jud: 
I believe 'a true statement' is really no more than what each individual 
person perceives as the 'truth,' and there is no 'higher' Platonic-like 'truth' 
away and beyond in the wild blue 'beyonder.'  There is no supra-accuracy marking 
time and waiting to make a grand entrance from Olympus by sliding down the 
bannister-rail of correctness on the winding staircase of veridicality  to 
Platonistically trounce the various human competing perceptions of some noumenal 
truths, which scrabble around in the dust of the agora like mangy sophist 
megatherians. 

Looking at it this way, a true statement is a true representation of the 
entities or arrangements of entities according to the perceptions of some worldly 
authority, which might be oneself  (and usually is on this list) or other 
people of like mind, and the faithful representation of entities or arrangements 
and interactions of entities is something that people notoriously differ over 
in their evaluations and descriptions. [see Heidy archives] 
As for the 'Truth of 'Being.'  [groan. ] - Well that's a double-dudded 
crackpot whammy if ever there was one -  that's best stuck where Paddy stuck his 
ninepence!

"It behooves those who devote themselves to observation to be impressed by 
this truth [i.e., that many facts grow old] and to realise that the best work is 
only good in relation to its time, and that it awaits another, more exact and 
more complete." 
Pierre-Charles-AlexandreLouis, 1829. 


Greekists take note!

Cheers,

Jud.

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